How to Run a Trace Route on Windows, Mac or Linux

traceroute/tracert is a network command that can be run on your computer to trace the path from your network to another.

Below instructions will helps you to find how to perform a traceroute check.

Note that in our examples you will need to replace eurovps.com/google.com with your actual domain name.

To run traceroute on Windows Operating System:

Open the command prompt.

1. Go to Start > Run. 
2. Type cmd and press OK 
3. In the command prompt, type: tracert hostname C:\Users\eurovps>tracert eurovps.com

C:\Users\Administrator>tracert google.com
Tracing route to google.com [172.217.163.142]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  77.235.32.254
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  4deb2805.diecidiecimultimediasrl.customer.at.net [77.235.40.5]
  3    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  v108.ce06.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net [5.79.67.69
  4    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  ae-14.br01.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net [81.17.34.
  5    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  adm-b3-link.telia.net [62.115.145.62]
  6     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  adm-bb4-link.telia.net [62.115.122.190]
  7     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  adm-b1-link.telia.net [62.115.137.65]
  8     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  72.14.213.8
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  216.239.42.70
 11     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  108.170.241.140
 12     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  216.239.40.135
 13     7 ms     7 ms     7 ms  108.170.237.243
 14    87 ms    86 ms    85 ms  172.253.51.158
 15   109 ms    94 ms    93 ms  216.239.57.196
 16   152 ms   131 ms   131 ms  72.14.239.209
 17   135 ms   142 ms   135 ms  209.85.248.220
 18   223 ms   229 ms   223 ms  209.85.246.232
 19   288 ms   290 ms   323 ms  216.239.63.97
 20   320 ms   320 ms   320 ms  74.125.252.164
 21   322 ms   319 ms   319 ms  74.125.242.145
 22   319 ms   319 ms   319 ms  216.239.42.245
 23   318 ms   319 ms   318 ms  maa05s04-in-f14.1e100.net [172.217.163.142]
Trace complete.

To run traceroute on a Mac: 

• Navigate to Go > Utilites 
• Locate Terminal 
• In Terminal, type: traceroute hostname traceroute eurovps.com 

To run traceroute on a Linux machine 

Open a Terminal window and type: traceroute hostname

[root@eurovps /]# traceroute eurovps.com

[root@eurovps /]

# traceroute google.com traceroute to google.com (216.58.212.174), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 77.235.32.254 (77.235.32.254) 0.864 ms 1.077 ms 1.117 ms 2 4deb2805.diecidiecimultimediasrl.customer.attikh.net (77.235.40.5) 0.770 ms 1.008 ms 1.069 ms 3 v108.ce05.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net (5.79.67.68) 0.255 ms 0.283 ms 0.250 ms 4 ae-13.br01.ams-01.nl.leaseweb.net (81.17.34.66) 0.352 ms 0.349 ms 0.819 ms 5 adm-b3-link.telia.net (62.115.145.62) 0.307 ms adm-b3-link.telia.net (62.115.48.209) 0.428 ms 0.401 ms 6 adm-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.122.190) 1.289 ms adm-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.122.178) 1.213 ms 1.181 ms 7 adm-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.137.65) 1.148 ms adm-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.136.195) 1.235 ms 1.179 ms 8 72.14.213.8 (72.14.213.8) 1.028 ms 1.082 ms 1.040 ms 9 * * * 10 72.14.213.8 (72.14.213.8) 1.144 ms 216.239.42.2 (216.239.42.2) 1.116 ms 108.170.236.220 (108.170.236.220) 2.930 ms 11 108.170.241.205 (108.170.241.205) 1.659 ms 216.239.42.75 (216.239.42.75) 1.097 ms 1.103 ms 12 ams15s22-in-f174.1e100.net (216.58.212.174) 1.079 ms 1.023 ms 0.992 ms

You can also use traceroute with an IP, example – traceroute 77.235.33.28.