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This article was created using an automated generation workflow leveraging generative AI. It reviews Microsoft's tracert documentation and IP/ICMP specifications, organizing how to read the output for troubleshooting purposes.Verification Status: Official specifications confirmed, actual path measurement not performed
Windowstracertstarts with a small TTL and increments it, using the response when the TTL expires along the way to estimate the hops. The displayed path is an observation result at that moment, not a fixed network map.
- Try This First
- What to Look For
- because some devices do not return or limit ICMP responses.
- Remove and rerun. Because name resolution is added, you can see that path discovery and name display are separate tasks.
- For inquiries such as "accessible within the corporate network but slow via VPN" or "difficulties reaching SaaS from a specific site," this serves as material to check routing differences after ping. Mask personal IP addresses or internal router names before sharing them externally. Additionally, because network paths fluctuate, record them alongside the failure timestamp, execution source, and destination.
Try This First
tracert -d example.com
-dskips name resolution, making it easier to observe changes in IP addresses and hops.
What to Look For
Check for the increase in hops line by line (line 1, line 2, etc.), response times, and*where*appears. Do not conclude that a router is faulty based solely on
because some devices do not return or limit ICMP responses.
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sequenceDiagram participant P as PC participant R1 as Router1 participant R2 as Router2 participant S as Server P->>R1: TTL=1 R1-->>P: Time Exceeded P->>R2: TTL=2 R2-->>P: Time Exceeded P->>S: TTL=3 S-->>P: 到達応答
Remove and rerun. Because name resolution is added, you can see that path discovery and name display are separate tasks.
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