I know it is an advanced ping command that traces the exact route a packet takes to get to the destination IP, but where actually are these routers that it’s making the hops to get there?
For example if I tracert google.com I know my IP address is my router in my house, it then makes hops to my ISP and then 4 more IP addresses are shown – where are the physical location of these?
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Somewhere between you and a Google data center. The last few might be inside the data center. (it’s not like I can magically see which IP addresses you see so I have no way of knowing exactly where those are)
Note that tracert doesn’t show all routers in the route any more. A lot of networks, especially the really big ones, use a technology called MPLS, which sets up VPNs between routers that are really far apart, and the VPN is invisible to tracert (it can only see the router where it begins and the router where it ends)
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