traceroute

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traceroute - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  traceroute
  
     <networking> A TCP/IP utility, originally Unix, which
     allows the user to determine the route packets are taking
     to a particular host.  Traceroute works by increasing the
     "time to live" value of packets and seeing how far they get,
     until they reach the given destination; thus, a lengthening
     trail of hosts passed through is built up.
  
     (2007-02-02)