{"id":51934,"date":"2021-03-16T03:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=51934"},"modified":"2021-03-16T08:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:58:54","slug":"trace-route-on-macos-via-spotlight-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/trace-route-on-macos-via-spotlight-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/traceroute_via_network_utility_traceroute.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutoriall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/traceroute_via_network_utility_traceroute.jpg\" title=\"Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A tool often used to diagnose DNS networking issues is a trace route.  On a Windows command line that can be achieved by the command <a target=_blank title='tracert information from Computerhope' href='https:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/tracert.htm'>&#8220;tracert&#8221;<\/a> and on macOS command line we can use <a target=_blank title='traceroute information from Computerhope' href='https:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/unix\/utracero.htm'>&#8220;traceroute&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, we want to be on macOS and use its GUI clarity to view a trace route.  What can we use?  Blog posting title spoiler alert <font size=1>(and we all know the woooorrrllllllddd needs more lerts)<\/font> is that we <font size=1>(thank <a target=_blank title='Good advice' href='https:\/\/macreports.com\/how-to-run-traceroute-on-macos\/'>https:\/\/macreports.com\/how-to-run-traceroute-on-macos\/<\/a> for heads up regarding trying to)<\/font> use the macOS <a target=_blank title='Spotlight on macOS' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-au\/HT204014'>Spotlight<\/a> functionality &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-au\/guide\/mac-help\/mchlp1008\/mac#:~:text=On%20your%20Mac%2C%20click%20the,using%20Dock%20%26%20Menu%20Bar%20preferences.'><p>\nSpotlight can help you quickly find apps, documents and other files on your Mac. With Siri Suggestions, you can also get the latest news, sports scores, weather conditions and more. Spotlight can even perform calculations and conversions for you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; to search for app information.  We use Spotlight (via command-space on this MacBook Pro using macOS Mojave) to search for &#8220;Network Utility&#8221; where we find the &#8220;Traceroute&#8221; tab to achieve our aim of producing a trace route of the rjmrogramming.com.au domain, as shown in today&#8217;s <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/traceroute_via_network_utility_traceroute.jpg\" title=\"Click picture\">tutorial picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d51934' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d51934\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/trace\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d51934' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tool often used to diagnose DNS networking issues is a trace route. On a Windows command line that can be achieved by the command &#8220;tracert&#8221; and on macOS command line we can use &#8220;traceroute&#8221;. 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