I had some issues with my hosting service today experiencing a downtime in the site. When I sent an email to the Godaddy support email, they got back at me with a series of instructions to do a traceroute to see why I couldnt get to see the site.
They sent instructions for Windows and Mac, so I sent an email asking for Linux instructions and they answered this:
”Thank you for contacting Online Support. Unfortunately we can’t provide instructions for the Linux system through this forum; you can probably find detailed instructions on doing so using you favorite search engine. Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
Sincerely,
Eric B.
Online Support Technician ”
So, I tried to type the command in the terminal but I would get a "invalid command". Solution? Do code:
sudo apt-get install traceroute
After this, you can use the "traceroute" command with these options:
-f ttl change the initial time to live value to ttl instead of 1
-n do not resolve IP numbers
-v verbose
-w sec set the timeout on returned packet to sec
An example for this command would be, code:
traceroute google.com
so did the traceroute to godaddy.com work in ubuntu? It seems I can do traceroutes to godaddy.com from windows but not any form of linux.