[exec] Raven: how does traceroute actually work?

[exec] is there something in the TCP header or so

[Raven] exec, i'll explain

[snider] traceroute isnt ovetr TCP

[angst] something about a TTL field I know that

[Raven] ooh, i can feel a spontaneous lecture coming!

(Samcon) snider: strange its probably with the ripper

[Raven] is anyone logging this?

[angst] I know what it is in my head, just cant type what I want to say :)

(Samcon) im

[Raven] who else is logging?

(Samcon) just a sec

[snider] samcon, well it is something with the identification and auth of it

(Samcon) im always logging btw

[tcs] are u holding a tutorial session ?

[Raven] ok, so the topic of this spontaneous lecture is...

[Raven] how does traceroute works

[Cypher] lecture?

[Raven] Cypher, spontaneous

[FrEEkY] raven untill phoneabuse.com is working I just refer people to BSRF

[snider] yea, although we have explained the matter a million times in here

[Raven] ok try to be quiet please

[Raven] so anyway, first of all, what is traceroute?

[Raven] traceroute traces the route that a packet goes through to get to a certain ip / hostname

[Raven] it's especially good to detect network problems

[Raven] if you're having trouble connecting to a certain host, you could run traceroute and see where the problem is

[Raven] where the chain stops

[Raven] any questions so far?

[Olaf] there is a great command in widows tracert

[Olaf] is it related?

[Raven] Olaf, in windows you can type tracert from dos

[Raven] in unix/linux, you can type traceroute

[Raven] or tracert if you make an alias

[Raven] :-)

[Olaf] my poor linux

[Raven] anyway for windows, there's also www.samspade.org

[Raven] ok, we're continuing

[Raven] so anyway, this is what traceroute does

[Raven] now, how does it work?

(Samcon) traceroute is the thing with the packet that gets +1 node every time no ?

[Raven] ok, first of all, i have to explain a little about TCP/IP

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