Traceroute Issue

Lakshmana

Hi All,
When I tried to traceroute the IP in command line the error showed as traceroute is not a internal command.How do overcome from this issue.I need to run traceroute in my system.I use traceroute in Windows XP machine in VMware Workstation

It's tracert on windows

scottalanmiller

That you are on VMware Workstation is not a factor. This is purely a Windows command line concern.

Can you provide a screenshot of what you are typing? It is possible that someone has removed tracert or that you are mistyping it.

scottalanmiller

As stated above, the traceroute command is tracert

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller said:

that someone has removed tracert or that you are mistyping it.

Sorry.I made a mistake in typing tracert typing but typed as traceroute.Now it is working properly.

Lakshmana

When I typed in Ubuntu machine as traceroute the command gives me a Unknown host.Why?

scottalanmiller

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@Lakshmana said:

When I typed in Ubuntu machine as traceroute the command gives me a Unknown host.Why?

Did you try it with it's IP? it sounds like there is no DNS entry for the ubuntu machine.

scottalanmiller

@Lakshmana said:

When I typed in Ubuntu machine as traceroute the command gives me a Unknown host.Why?

What is the complete command that you used?

Lakshmana

@thecreativeone91

scottalanmiller

There you go, it tells you right on the screen that traceroute is not installed and it gives you the command to install it. All you need to do is...

sudo apt-get install traceroute

Lakshmana

@scottalanmiller said:

sudo apt-get install traceroute

Thank You Sir

scottalanmiller

No problem.