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How to Complete a Traceroute

How to complete Traceroute on a Windows PC:

Open the Start menu.

Type Run.
To open the command line interface, type cmd and then click OK.


The command line window will appear as below:

At the command line prompt, type:
tracert yourdomain.com
or tracert IP

The results should complete and the output should look similar to the following:

How to complete a traceroute on a Mac device:
Open a terminal window.
At the command line prompt, type:
traceroute yourdomain.com
or traceroute IP

The output of the results should display similar to the Windows example above.

If you are asked to provide the results from the traceroute, you may screenshot them and attach them to the ticket or you may copy and paste in the message of your response.

Updated on December 19, 2018

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