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Xu Shijie
Asked: 2017-03-12 05:27:44 +0800 CST

Which command to look the path to a server

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I am looking for a command (may be two) that can shows the path to a remote server(e.g., www.google.com).

For a server, this command first lists the DNS server I used, and then shows each network hops, when it is on the way to the given IP address, which is resolved from DNS lookup.

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    Two commands come to mind, though there are likely a ton more:

    First, DNS Server:

    nslookup www.google.com

    This command will output the DNS server, and a list of ip addresses that have been found that translate to www.google.com.

    Second command, is the one you want to determine route, is:

    traceroute www.gooogle.com

    it does not show hops, though you are able to set the max number of hops.

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