These are handy to see how your traffic gets routed to different IPs worldwide. This is an essential tool for us to troubleshoot any latency related issues with ControlD.
Here is how to perform a traceroute on Windows.
Go to Start, search for “cmd” and open the Command Prompt.
Enter this command: tracert controld.com
You should see something like this:
C:\>tracert controld.com
Tracing route to controld.com [76.76.10.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms <1 ms 1 ms REDACTED
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms hu0-0-1-0.pe26.151FrontStW01.YYZ.beanfield.com [199.167.152.120]
3 19 ms 15 ms 20 ms 76-9-214-10.beanfield.net [76.9.214.10]
4 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms controld.com [76.76.10.1]
Trace complete.Here is how to perform a traceroute on a Mac.
Open Terminal.
Enter this command: traceroute controld.com
You should see something like this:
iMac:~ user$ traceroute controld.com
traceroute to controld.com (76.76.10.1), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 REDACTED
2 REDACTED
3 hu0-0-1-0.pe25.151frontstw01.yyz.beanfield.com (199.167.152.86) 1.107 ms 1.141 ms 0.907 ms
4 hu0-0-1-0.pe26.151frontstw01.yyz.beanfield.com (199.167.152.120) 1.126 ms 1.103 ms 1.041 ms
5 76-9-214-10.beanfield.net (76.9.214.10) 20.661 ms 16.811 ms 18.972 ms
6 controld.com (76.76.10.1) 0.557 ms 0.456 ms 0.420 msHere is how to perform a traceroute on Linux.
Open Terminal.
Enter this command: sudo mtr -w -z --show-ips --report-cycles=10 controld.com
You should see something like this:
user@ubuntu:/$ sudo mtr -w -z --show-ips --report-cycles=10 controld.com
Start: 2021-05-05T14:35:09-0400
HOST: ubuntu Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. AS??? REDACTED 0.0% 10 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.7 0.1
2. AS21949 REDACTED 0.0% 10 1.4 1.4 1.1 1.9 0.2
3. AS21949 hu0-0-1-0.pe26.151FrontStW01.YYZ.beanfield.com (199.167.152.120) 0.0% 10 1.2 1.4 1.1 1.8 0.2
4. AS21949 76-9-214-10.beanfield.net (76.9.214.10) 0.0% 10 15.1 25.9 2.6 136.2 39.1
5. AS398962 controld.com (76.76.10.1) 0.0% 10 0.6 0.9 0.5 2.7 0.8Do this only if you get an error that mtr is not installed, use this command instead: sudo traceroute -I controld.com
You should see something like this:
user@ubuntu:/$ sudo traceroute controld.com
traceroute to controld.com (76.76.10.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 REDACTED
2 REDACTED
3 hu0-0-1-0.pe26.151FrontStW01.YYZ.beanfield.com (199.167.152.120) 1.188 ms 1.181 ms 1.137 ms
4 76-9-214-10.beanfield.net (76.9.214.10) 18.181 ms 18.173 ms 18.166 ms
5 controld.com (76.76.10.1) 0.406 ms 0.340 ms 0.389 ms