Track your OSi Layer 3 Packets with trace route command. Ever wonder where your internet data goes before it hits it’s destination?
Well, you can find out with the “traceroute” command.
Let’s say for the sake of this Tech Tails we want to see all the router stops along the way to Google.com. Well, the most basic way is to open the terminal app and type
traceroute google.com
And the results you will see are a list of the DNS entry, outside IP address, and time between each hop along the way to the destination server.
Great info is that if you have a “network black hole”, there are just missing packets of data.