“Ping,” a command that was designed – and used for many years – to confirm communication with and/or round-trip latency to an IP address or URL, has become much less useful. And this is really a shame ...

I'm looking for some clarity on the inner workings of traceroute and ping record-route. Here's my understanding.<BR><BR>Traceroute sends UDP (ports 33434-33534) packets with a destination IP as ...

We recently wrote about the diminishing usability of “ping” and “tracert” due to the use of these commands as components of various types of network attacks. We also expressed our dismay that by ...

I have found a host on our WAN that is dual homed. I am assuming that this host has routing enabled. There are three hops between me and this host. I would like to use this host as a router and query ...

On the Internet, where routers, switches, computers, and other devices are intricately intertwined, packets must pass through many routers before they can reach the destination server. However, if a ...

Been experiencing some unusually high ping today to some australian servers. Seems be telstra related from what I can see on a tracert, heres an example: Tracing route to 101.167.164.38 over a maximum ...