Activity : Tracing the road to google.com

Duration : 10 mins

Format : Individual activity

When you connect to another device on the internet, your request must travel through the access, aggregation and core networks until it reaches its destination. Along the way, it will encounter many devices, including your internet box, mobile access point and routers.

Traceroute is a networking tool primarily used for debugging purposes that allows you to see all the devices (hops) that your request goes through before reaching the requested address.

Assignment

Make a traceroute to google.com to see how many devices your request will pass through before reaching its destination

Ressources

Open your terminal and copy and paste the relevant command below, depending on your operating system.

MAC OS

traceroute google.com

Windows

tracert google.com

Linux

traceroute google.com

Output

Results for fixed network

traceroute to google.com (142.251.39.206), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  livebox.home (192.168.1.1)  4.548 ms  4.441 ms  4.352 ms
 2  system.cgnidf22.rbci.orange.net (193.253.76.15)  20.210 ms  20.150 ms  20.094 ms
 3  ae461-0.ncidf203.rbci.orange.net (81.253.216.18)  20.038 ms  22.084 ms  22.026 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  209.85.148.16 (209.85.148.16)  29.244 ms 193.251.255.48 (193.251.255.48)  16.322 ms 193.251.255.82 (193.251.255.82)  16.234 ms
 7  * 108.170.238.45 (108.170.238.45)  15.780 ms *
 8  142.250.224.196 (142.250.224.196)  17.264 ms 142.251.253.39 (142.251.253.39)  15.570 ms 142.251.253.37 (142.251.253.37)  17.036 ms
 9  pnpara-ai-in-f14.1e100.net (142.251.39.206)  23.985 ms  23.934 ms  23.885 ms