Traceroute

1. -n : Disable DNS lookup to speed up queries.

2. -w seconds : Set the time (in seconds) to wait for a response to a probe (default 5.0 sec).

3. -q NUMBER : Sets the number of probe packets per hop. The default is 3.

The following example will wailt 3 seconds (instead of 5), only send out 1 query to each hop (ineader of 3): $ traceroute -n -w 3 -q 1 www.cyberciti.biz