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Re: ping and tracert networking question

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
OK, this is where I have some confusion. I thought DNS was to resolve a name into an IP address. Why is DNS required if I am already providing the IP address?]
By default, tracert will still use DNS to try to look up a name for each hop so it can display it as part of the output. Use "-d" (Windows) or "-n" (Linux) to tell it to skip that part.