What information does the traceroute utility reveal?

• A. The path and round-trip times to each hop along the route to a destination, showing each router along the path
• B. The final destination's IP address and latency
• C. The DNS name associated with each hop
• D. The total bandwidth available along the route

Answer: (D)

Traceroute shows the route packets take to a destination and how long it takes to reach each hop along that path. For every router the probe reaches, you get the hop’s address (and often its hostname if DNS resolution is available) and the round-trip time for each probe. This lets you see the sequence of routers and identify where delays occur.

It does not provide information about total bandwidth along the route, and it isn’t intended to report only the final destination’s latency. Those aspects aren’t what traceroute is designed to measure.