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Handy tools

Handy tools

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Handy tools

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- In this episode, I want to cover some handy tools that I don't cover in other episodes, but we're kind of going to need them from this point going forward. Now it's just a couple, but they're actually pretty cool. So let's just take a moment. First of all, I want to talk about traceroute. Now, traceroute is a command that allows you to check all the hops, every router that you go through from your system to any other system that you want. Now, we can either use the term traceroute where we actually spell it all the way out. That's usually what we do in the Linux world, whereas in the Windows world, we tend to just say tracert like that. So let's put both of those up on the screen. So it's traceroute or tracert. Now I'm going to be working a windows, so we're going to do tracert. It would work exactly the same in Linux using the full blown traceroute. So here we go. You guys ready? What I'm going to do is I'm going to type in traceroute, and now I'm going to pick some arbitrary place…

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