Traceroute is showing that I hit my destination (147.21.65.42) on the fourth hop. So why does it do 15 more hops?
From my location, the pipe to this server is an MPLS virtual private network. I'm thinking that might be affecting what traceroute reports.
C:\>tracert example.com
Tracing route to example.com [147.21.65.42]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 4 ms <1 ms <1 ms 172.18.41.254
2 8 ms 10 ms 8 ms 192.168.208.30
3 14 ms 8 ms 7 ms 192.168.208.50
4 8 ms 8 ms 8 ms 147.21.65.42
5 16 ms 15 ms 16 ms 147.21.65.42
6 55 ms 54 ms 55 ms 147.21.65.42
7 55 ms 55 ms 55 ms 147.21.65.42
8 55 ms 55 ms 54 ms 147.21.65.42
9 55 ms 55 ms 55 ms 147.21.65.42
10 * * * Request timed out.
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 143 ms 135 ms 119 ms 147.21.65.42
Trace complete.
