We continuously check our connection to the Internet backbone.
Click Traceroute Log to see the records for the
last several days.
Traceroute displays the route packets take to a network host, such as a website.
The Internet is a large and complex aggregation of network
hardware, connected together by gateways. Tracking the
route one's packets follow (or finding the miscreant gate-
way that's discarding your packets) can be difficult.
Traceroute utilizes the IP protocol `time to live' field
and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from
each gateway along the path to some host.