Traceroute to IP address fails, but traceroute to domain name with same IP address is okay. Why?
- by tomo
When I traceroute to this IP (108.162.198.181) it stops after 1 hop. But tracerouting to a domain (www.gomodule.com) with the same IP shows 9 hops ending in that target.
traceroute to www.gomodule.com (108.162.198.81), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 131.667 ms 48.532 ms 48.837 ms
2 118.69.255.124 (118.69.255.124) 91.521 ms 79.177 ms 30.679 ms
3 42.117.11.225 (42.117.11.225) 30.270 ms 32.091 ms 29.698 ms
4 118.69.253.213 (118.69.253.213) 32.234 ms
118.69.253.237 (118.69.253.237) 70.667 ms
118.69.253.213 (118.69.253.213) 82.440 ms
5 118.69.253.245 (118.69.253.245) 64.554 ms 80.277 ms 130.224 ms
6 118.69.251.205 (118.69.251.205) 65.635 ms
118.69.249.78 (118.69.249.78) 133.234 ms
118.69.251.205 (118.69.251.205) 224.111 ms
7 118.69.251.249 (118.69.251.249) 156.679 ms 111.965 ms 64.165 ms
8 cloudflare1-rge.hkix.net (202.40.160.246) 64.102 ms 64.498 ms 74.581 ms
9 108.162.198.81 (108.162.198.81) 66.873 ms 67.426 ms 69.054 ms
-vs-
traceroute to 108.162.198.181 (108.162.198.181), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 96.588 ms 3.003 ms 4.976 ms
2 118.69.255.124 (118.69.255.124) 45.223 ms 31.449 ms 31.225 ms
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