6 traceroute: Trace the route to a host
traceroute traces the route packets take to a host.
Synopsis:
traceroute [option...] host
- -M method
- --type=method
- Use method (‘icmp’ or ‘udp’) for traceroute
operations.
- -p port
- --port=port
- Use destination port (default: 33434).
- -q num
- --tries=num
- Send num probe packets per hop (default: 3).
- --resolve-hostnames
- Resolve hostnames.