I’m on NixOS. The use of sudo doesn’t really bother me. I just wish to understand what’s going on. It’s still like this today.

While waiting for the results I’m educating myself on traceroute. It was super slow, but here’s the result. How do I interpret it?

$ sudo traceroute chaos.social
traceroute to chaos.social (5.9.119.202), 64 hops max
  1   192.168.1.1  0.777ms  0.714ms  0.621ms
  2   5.132.112.1  4.105ms  4.055ms  3.946ms
  3   10.10.10.174  7.384ms  7.338ms  7.204ms
  4   10.226.4.3  7.275ms  7.230ms  7.053ms
  5   *  *  *
  6   80.249.209.55  9.276ms  7.288ms  7.112ms
  7   *  *  *
  8   213.239.252.45  18.652ms  12.801ms  12.992ms
  9   213.239.224.69  17.158ms  17.165ms  17.119ms
 10   213.239.254.190  17.323ms  17.269ms  17.427ms
 11   5.9.119.208  17.327ms  17.332ms  17.211ms
 12   *  *  *
 13   *  *  *
 14   *  *  *
 ... asterisks all the way down
 63   *  *  *

~ took 15m23s
$ echo $?
1

It seems to stop at 5.9.119.208, which seems close to the destination 5.9.119.202.

Note to self: traceroute has to be run with sudo, otherwise only gives asterisks.

Edit: I’m getting almost exactly the same result when connecting via mobile network, when the connection to the site works. Am I doing it right?