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How would trace-route help you find out where a breakdown in communication is?

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Question added by Abdulaziz Alharbi , IT Security Specialist , Sentient Vision System & RMIT
Date Posted: 2015/10/06
Mohammed Siddeekh
by Mohammed Siddeekh , Corporate Cyber Security Governance Consultant , Saudi Basic Industries Corporation - Sabic

A tracert or traceroute can help in that regard as you can tell exactly where the chain of connections stop. With this information, you can contact the correct people – whether it be your own firewall, your ISP, your destination’s ISP or somewhere in the middle. 

when we trace-route in communication, we can find where there is a brakdown from the last Ip adress receiving in the network. 

Mohamed Saad
by Mohamed Saad , Technical lead of National Incident Response teamTechnical lead of National Incident Response team , Ministry Of Interior - Qatar

Traceroute will shows every router (hop) that the packet  reach  while traveling from source to destination, it can show:

1- the hop causing the delay.

2- if there is a routing loop.

3- if the packet is taking unexpected/ unintended route 

Abdallah AlQurashi
by Abdallah AlQurashi , Weather Technologist , Arabia Weather

Well, frankly speaking, trace-route shows every hop the packet is traveling through to reach a destination, when I have a communication breakdown I can trace-route and check where is the packet dropping or even taking an unusual amount of time.

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