Re: What do all those "* * *" mean on a traceroute log?

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

On 4/12/23, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> unicorn:~$ traceroute www.google.com
> traceroute to www.google.com (142.250.190.4), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
>  1  routerlogin.net (10.0.0.1)  0.413 ms  0.355 ms  0.415 ms
>  2  65-131-222-254.mnfd.centurylink.net (65.131.222.254)  38.070 ms  39.776
> ms  36.299 ms
>  3  75.160.81.21 (75.160.81.21)  41.687 ms  45.801 ms  39.873 ms
>  4  * * *
>  5  ae0.11.bar2.Toronto1.level3.net (4.69.151.242)  56.715 ms
> ae14.14.bar2.Toronto1.level3.net (4.69.216.246)  56.550 ms
> ae0.11.bar2.Toronto1.level3.net (4.69.151.242)  58.637 ms
> [...]
> No response was received from hop number 4, so traceroute shows me * * *
there.

 Yes, but should it happen on every hop? In my case it happens while I
am trying to reach every site and from wherever I have the chance to
get some relatively decent Internet access?

 A descriptive metaphor would be. You can see the traffic light once
you get out of your home's drive way, but the rest of all of them
misfunction regardless of where you are driving and the time of the
day and it always, consistently and apparently, exclusively happens to
-you- ;-)

 lbrtchx