traceroute

[Net Llama!]

On 12/11/2004 04:53 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> 
> witbout the help of another remote host, how could traceroute my own 
> host? if I run traceroute toylet.homeip.net from my server, it will 
> resolve the host as local one and reports this:
> 
> 
> root at server: traceroute-1.4a12> traceroute toylet.homeip.net
> traceroute to toylet.homeip.net (61.10.51.69), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  cm61-10-51-69.hkcable.com.hk (61.10.51.69)  0.250 ms  0.221 ms 0.117 ms
> 


Either i'm misunderstanding what you're trying to accomplish, or you are 
missing the purpose of traceroute.  Traceroute shows the route from one 
host to another.  If you're tracerouting your own host, then there can 
be only one hop, unless your routing table is busticated.

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