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MTR: 'traceroute' and 'ping' in a single tool


mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool. As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host.

If the latest version is missing, and you can't get it from github for one reason or another, let me know and I'll have to make one for you manually. Ryan's build and/or mirror apparenltly stopped working somewhere in 1999, 14 years ago and nobody noticed. In general the "parts of the world are unreachable from some locations" problems seem to have reduced enormously over the last two decades.

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