HACKER Q&A
📣 bjourne

How does traceroute on airplane wifis work?


    Host                                                                                             Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
    1. ns.lufthansa-flynet.com                                                                       25,0%     4    2,9   3,0   2,8   3,1   0,1
    2. 10.35.112.1                                                                                    0,0%     4    3,4   3,1   2,3   3,9   0,7
    3. news.ycombinator.com                                                                           0,0%     3  576,5 593,8 575,6 629,3  30,7
Why does it only show me three hops?

  👤 lobito25 Accepted Answer ✓
The network uses NAT + tunneling and the intermediate routers don’t expose ICMP. The entire Internet path is presented as a single logical hop