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Tracing routes

Ping scans allows including trace route information of the targets. Use the Nmap option --traceroute to trace the route from the scanning machine to the target host:

#nmap -sn --traceroute google.com microsoft.com    Nmap scan report for google.com (216.58.193.46)    Host is up (0.16s latency).    Other addresses for google.com (not scanned):      2607:f8b0:4012:805::200e    rDNS record for 216.58.193.46: qro01s13-in-f14.1e100.net    TRACEROUTE (using port 443/tcp)    HOP RTT       ADDRESS    1   1.28 ms   192.168.0.1    2   ...    3   158.85 ms 10.165.1.9    4   ... 5    6   165.50 ms 10.244.158.13    7   171.18 ms 10.162.0.254    8   175.33 ms 200.79.231.81.static.cableonline.com.mx        (200.79.231.81)    9   183.16 ms 10.19.132.97    10  218.60 ms 72.14.203.70  11 223.35 ms 209.85.240.177 ...

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