Traceroute printing asterisk symbol
traceroute
Solution
Well, you get your answer almost a year later. I personally was wondering the same thing, so I did some googling and found this answer on webmasters.
If a packet is not acknowledged within the expected timeout, an asterisk is displayed.
Problem
I am trying to use `traceroute` unix program to find the route to a host. I tried `traceroute www.google.com` and I end up seeing only asterisks printed. Examples on the internet uses the same command and it seems to work well. I tried increasing the `waitime` value using `-w` switch. Still does not work.