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Comment by djbusby | Hacker News Reader

A better traceroute is mtr - was mentioned a few days ago on here.

tcptraceroute can also be more useful sometimes, as it doesn't rely on ICMP for the probes. But mtr all the way.

  mtr --tcp

“Use TCP SYN packets instead of ICMP ECHO. PACKETSIZE is ignored, since SYN packets can not contain data.”