Web-based PING and Traceroute
Many companies have built WWW pages that provide access to the PING and traceroute applications for WWW clients. This enables remote users to get the output of the PING and traceroute applications from the perspective of the remote server. This can be a very valuable tool when you are troubleshooting routing or packet loss problems on the Internet. If you can find a Web-based traceroute page that is on a network that you are having problems reaching, you have a way to examine a sample of the return path of traffic in general from that network to yours. Figure 12.2 shows a sample of what a Web-based PING page would look like.
Figure 12.2. Sample Web-based PING page.
Listing 12.9 shows a sample of the program ...
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