I need help with a reality/sanity check. Traceroute is a good tool for checking for routing type problems (loops). Does anyone feel it's a good tool
It's probably a poor tool for all kinds of really good technical reasons, but "Matts traceroute" aka MTR is useful to me, often shows overstressed routers or connections... especially when normal traceroute just shows garbage. Example screen: Packets Pings Hostname %Loss Rcv Snt Last Best Avg Worst 1. shredder-48-1.higherbandwidth.net 0% 6 6 0 0 1 2. shredder-131-1.higherbandwidth.net 0% 6 6 1 0 1 3. 500.Serial3-11.GW7.ATL1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 3 3 5 4. 174.at-1-0-0.XR2.ATL1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 3 3 4 5. 194.at-1-0-0.TR2.ATL5.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 5 4 4 6. 129.at-6-0-0.TR2.NYC9.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 27 27 27 7. 186.ATM6-0.XR2.BOS1.ALTER.NET 0% 6 6 40 35 36 8. 152.63.16.117 0% 6 6 42 41 46 9. adel-buf2-gw.customer.ALTER.NET 17% 5 6 106 78 110 10. c4700lwa.buf.adelphia.net 0% 5 6 76 76 113 11. 64.8.0.85 0% 5 5 97 97 130 12. ??? 13. ??? 14. mx1.cdp.adelphia.net 0% 5 5 105 98 119