Quote Originally Posted by 2600HERTZ
TraceRoute is an old tracer program that was coded by analogx I believe, and realeased in the late 90's....you type in an ip and it shows you the ending node, and every node contacted in between the tracer and the destination. However you could put yourself behind a proxy and then it makes it look like the ending node is you but in fact is an anonymous proxy server.
Did you just make this entire post up? I mean it literally seems like you just pulled it out of your ass..

Traceroute was created by a man named Van Jacobson in the late 1980s. It was originally standard on all unix-based installs. Windows has a similar program called tracert. It works by increasing the TTL (time-to-live) with each batch of "packets" that are sent out. The first few packets have a TTL value of 1, and it increases from there. A TTL value of 1 means that they make a single "hop". When a packet reaches the next host, that host then increases the TTL by 1 and forwards it on. Your computer then recieves these packets back, and calculates the time between packets (called latency).