Go to the Applications folder.
Navigate to the Utilities folder.
Click on Terminal.
At the command prompt enter:
telnet [full domain name] [port number]
and then:
traceroute [full domain name]
To capture the result and place it in a text file, go to Terminal Service Menu bar.
Go to Edit/Select All. After everything is Highlighted go back to the menu bar Edit/Copy.
Go to Applications folder.
Navigate to TextEdit application.
Once TextEdit is open to to the TextEdit menu bar.
Click on Edit/Paste.
Save the text file.
Note: The value [full domain name] can be any domain name. As an
example domain.com where domain.com
is the domain to your account. [port number] is the port number you
will be testing such as port 25 for SMTP, port 21 for FTP, or port 1433 for MS SQL.
Article ID: 68, Created: July 2, 2012 at 2:33 AM, Modified: July 2, 2012 at 2:33 AM