Attached Link: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/traceroute.html

"... A utility that traces a packet from your computer to an Internet host, showing how many hops the packet requires to reach the host and how long each hop takes. If you're visiting a Web site and pages are appearing slowly, you can use traceroute to figure out where the longest delays are occurring." You may have to increase the timeout value. CGtalk times out for me on hop 14 BTW. The more likely cause is a firewall. A quick search reveals that some firewalls block the ICMP packets that (Windows) tracert uses so that even if your http goes through, tracert won't reach it. In that case, tracert won't help. With Renderosity, it's not being blocked so you can get a complete trace. Unix tracert uses UDP packets by default but those may also be blocked at the firewall. There is a version of tracert that use TCP/IP and may get by the block but I only see it available for Linux.

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