Trace Route on MacOS via Spotlight Tutorial
A tool often used to diagnose DNS networking issues is a trace route. On a Windows command line that can be achieved by the command “tracert” and on macOS command line we can use “traceroute”.
Today, though, we want to be on macOS and use its GUI clarity to view a trace route. What can we use? Blog posting title spoiler alert (and we all know the woooorrrllllllddd needs more lerts) is that we (thank https://macreports.com/how-to-run-traceroute-on-macos/ for heads up regarding trying to) use the macOS Spotlight functionality …
Spotlight can help you quickly find apps, documents and other files on your Mac. With Siri Suggestions, you can also get the latest news, sports scores, weather conditions and more. Spotlight can even perform calculations and conversions for you.
… to search for app information. We use Spotlight (via command-space on this MacBook Pro using macOS Mojave) to search for “Network Utility” where we find the “Traceroute” tab to achieve our aim of producing a trace route of the rjmrogramming.com.au domain, as shown in today’s tutorial picture.
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