I read a few articles explaining the purpose of the ping and traceroute commands after finishing them. From my experience and the articles, I determined that the ping command measures the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer and helps determine whether the target host is reachable by sending an echo request packet and waiting for an echo reply. Sending brief information packets to a particular IP address and recording the packets' route to get there is known as a traceroute. It plots a packet's path from your computer to the target host.
I ping-tested each website, and they all successfully
received the same amount of packets. There is a range of round-trip timeframes
for each website. According to a comparison of the three websites, Japan had
the longest round-trip time to receive echo replies. Given that the data
packets have to travel farther, this implies that there are more considerable
physical distances between my computer and the website's
server. Using the ping and traceroute commands can be helpful in
troubleshooting connections. To determine whether the issue is with the website
or your connection, you can use the ping command to the website address if you
are having trouble accessing it. The traceroute command can determine the exact
location in the network where packets are being lost or experiencing delays.
Network congestion or security settings are two potential
causes of a timeout or return error answer, according to research and
conversations with a coworker knowledgeable about ping requests and
traceroute instructions. Timeouts can occur from dropped packets due to network
congestion. Both the ping and traceroute commands employ packets, which might
be blocked by network or host security settings.
Below are screenshots of the ping and traceroute commands of google.com.
Ping Command of Google.
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