Traceroute, * at first router
- by Jérôme
When using traceroute on my mac to check the path to any website, the first line is always 3 stars.
imac:~ Jerome$ traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 173.194.70.113
traceroute to google.com (173.194.70.113), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 * * *
2 217-168-54-101.static.cablecom.ch (217.168.54.101) 9.515 ms 8.757 ms 10.104 ms
3 172.31.208.73 (172.31.208.73) 14.512 ms 14.605 ms 14.264 ms
4 ch-zrh01b-ra1-ae-1.aorta.net (84.116.134.142) 13.587 ms 12.892 ms 13.936 ms
5 74.125.49.101 (74.125.49.101) 13.966 ms 14.850 ms 14.915 ms
6 72.14.232.120 (72.14.232.120) 26.573 ms
72.14.232.88 (72.14.232.88) 20.072 ms 19.758 ms
7 72.14.236.68 (72.14.236.68) 26.913 ms
72.14.236.20 (72.14.236.20) 26.825 ms
72.14.239.62 (72.14.239.62) 25.381 ms
8 209.85.254.118 (209.85.254.118) 22.240 ms 22.365 ms
209.85.254.112 (209.85.254.112) 24.826 ms
9 * * *
10 fa-in-f113.1e100.net (173.194.70.113) 25.715 ms 26.960 ms 25.191 ms
As far as I know, * means no answer from the router.
How come I have stars at the very first line ?