Week 6 Muddiest Point

This may be a rudimentary muddy point but I'm just curious as to what the traceroute information generated from that website would be useful for. I used CMU's link from www.traceroute.com and am curious about what the list means. the IP address I used is from my laptop that I was using on my home wireless network.

Here's what I got from CMU:

traceroute Results

Results from: /usr/sbin/traceroute 136.142.64.121:

traceroute to 136.142.64.121 (136.142.64.121), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  POD-C-NH-VL4.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.4.44)  0.247 ms  0.214 ms  0.204 ms
2  CORE255-VL908.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.194)  0.317 ms  0.285 ms  0.272 ms
3  POD-I-CYH-VL987.GW.CMU.NET (128.2.255.250)  0.490 ms  0.397 ms  0.417 ms
4  bar-cmu-ge-4-0-0-2.3rox.net (192.88.115.185)  124.024 ms *  133.533 ms
5  pitt-cl-i2.3rox.net (192.88.115.151)  0.497 ms  0.457 ms  0.472 ms
6  cl2-vlan712.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.2.162)  3.056 ms  0.839 ms  0.633 ms
7  cl-wan5-cl-core-2.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.9.18)  1.300 ms  1.328 ms  1.281 ms
8  nb-cl.gw.pitt.edu (136.142.253.30)  112.341 ms  10.279 ms  106.211 ms
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Error!

Timed out while processing: /usr/sbin/traceroute 136.142.64.121.

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It appears the route goes from CMU to Pitt and then eventually to me (unfortunately, it kept timing out). Neat stuff!