Jan Danielsson wrote:
> # traceroute -n 195.54.122.198
> traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 85.228.172.105 @ bge0
> traceroute to 195.54.122.198 (195.54.122.198), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  85.228.128.1  33.089 ms  34.087 ms  38.247 ms
>  2  195.54.125.217  125.726 ms  34.329 ms  38.105 ms
>  3  195.54.117.157  48.781 ms  34.443 ms  34.163 ms
>  4  195.54.123.122  84.911 ms  58.137 ms  58.731 ms
>  5  * 195.54.118.42  34.324 ms *
>  6  * 195.54.118.42  49.662 ms !X *
>  7  * * *
>  8  *
> ^C
> 
>    Any conclusions I can draw from that?

You can conclude that your packets are reaching each of the hops which 
responded. 195.54.118.42 is the last hop the packets got to.

Interestingly enough, !X is "communication administratively prohibited".

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