The tracert command displays router addresses that are traversed between a source and a destination.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. It displays DNS servers along the path
• D. It lists all active connections

Answer: (A)

Tracert shows the path to a destination by revealing each router hop along the way. It sends probes with increasing TTL values, and every router that decrements the TTL to zero replies with an ICMP Time Exceeded message. By collecting these responses, tracert prints the address of each router encountered from source to destination, along with the round‑trip time for each hop. This is why the tool displays the router addresses you traverse. If reverse DNS is available, those addresses may appear as hostnames, but the purpose remains to map the route, not identify DNS servers. It doesn’t list all active connections, and if a router blocks ICMP, you may see timeouts, but the core idea is showing the sequence of routers along the path.