[Gllug] Bank Holiday Monday type question

[Simon Morris]

On 5/30/05, Adrian McMenamin <adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> If I traceroute anywhere about 90% of the time is taken getting the
> packet off my network and into the wide world...why is that?
> 
> ie what is the technical reason for the big delay in routing a packet
> off my network and into the internetwork?
> 

My guess is that traceroute is trying to resolve the names of the
devices that it comes across and spends some time timing out resolving
the devices on your network.

Try running traceroute so it doesn't bother resolving names

traceroute -n hostname

~sm
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