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by lm411 64 days ago
Dude had to rewrite traceroute to discover what the first line of the man page description says.

> traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. It utilizes the IP protocol's time to live (TTL) field and attempts to elicit an ICMP TIME_EXCEEDED response from each gateway along the path to the host.