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Traceroute Lies: A Typical Misinterpretation Of Output

by John Herbert movingpackets.net published 2017-10-063 min read

Traceroute can points to a link having terrible latency, but despite what it appears, it's easy to misread the output and jump to the wrong conclusion.

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