How does tracert work (Windows)

August 13, 2009

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Have you wondered how tracert actually works and what all the extra data means it reports back. When using the tracert utility, if you use a host name such as tracert microsoft.com the machine will do a dns lookup first to find the address. In the example below I did a tracert [...]

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