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tracert is a command in MS-DOS command prompt to trace the route to an IP Address. Is there any command in the Gnome Terminal equivalent to this?

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Just an aside: if you're referring to the command-line utility in Windows, it is just that, a Windows command-line application, not a MS-DOS application. MS-DOS has been out of favor for some 17 years (since the release of Windows 95) and certainly for a decade (since Windows XP came out, giving the NT kernel a huge boost in the home market). – Michael Kjörling Sep 18 '12 at 9:39
hehe.. sorry. I generally use cmd, but for posting here i used that. btw thanks for the info :D – vipin8169 Sep 18 '12 at 9:52

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Install the traceroute package via terminal by running:

sudo apt-get install traceroute

After that, type this in the terminal:

traceroute [ip/web-site url]

For example:

traceroute 8.8.8.8

you can also use web-sites as well:

traceroute http://www.sitename.com/
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yeah, it worked.. – vipin8169 Sep 17 '12 at 12:00
thanks a ton :D – vipin8169 Sep 17 '12 at 12:02
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Have a look at tracepath, too. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Sep 17 '12 at 12:10
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It does the job.. glad to help! :) – Alen T Sep 17 '12 at 12:34
Ask Ubuntu is a great forum, i'm glad to be a part of it :D – vipin8169 Sep 17 '12 at 12:36
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As an alternative to traceroute, you might use mtr, it's like traceroute on steroids.

From the package description:

mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.

mtr-tiny is compiled without support for X and conserves disk space.

To install it:

sudo apt-get install mtr-tiny

Usage example:

mtr example.lan

Example output:

                             My traceroute  [v0.71]
            example.lan                           Sun Mar 25 00:07:50 2007

                                       Packets                Pings
Hostname                            %Loss  Rcv  Snt  Last Best  Avg  Worst
 1. example.lan                        0%   11   11     1    1    1      2
 2. ae-31-51.ebr1.Chicago1.Level3.n   19%    9   11     3    1    7     14
 3. ae-1.ebr2.Chicago1.Level3.net      0%   11   11     7    1    7     14
 4. ae-2.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.ne   19%    9   11    19   18   23     31
 5. ae-1.ebr1.Washington1.Level3.ne   28%    8   11    22   18   24     30
 6. ge-3-0-0-53.gar1.Washington1.Le    0%   11   11    18   18   20     36
 7. 63.210.29.230                      0%   10   10    19   19   19     19
 8. t-3-1.bas1.re2.yahoo.com           0%   10   10    19   18   32    106
 9. p25.www.re2.yahoo.com              0%   10   10    19   18   19     19
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will definitely try it.. Thanks – vipin8169 Sep 18 '12 at 6:20
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traceroute, traceroute6, tracepath perform this task. They are executable programs installed in Unix systems (somewhere in /usr/bin/, or /bin/, or /usr/sbin/, or /sbin/ -- the last two are not in the PATH for a normal user, only for root). They are independent of any terminal package.

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do i need to install anything to use it? – vipin8169 Sep 17 '12 at 12:00
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@vipin8169 I'm not sure whether it is installed by default in Ubuntu. Will have to check the name of the package which it belongs to. Perhaps someone else can help and edit the answer? I'm not currently working on an Ubuntu system. – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev Sep 17 '12 at 12:09
actually i installed traceroute package before trying tracepath, it worked.. but i don't know if it was related to that install or not – vipin8169 Sep 17 '12 at 12:24

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