A Linux administrator is investigating reports of slow connectivity to a remote web server. The administrator first uses ping to confirm basic connectivity and observes a high but consistent round-trip time. To further diagnose the issue, the administrator needs to identify the specific network hop that is introducing the most significant delay. Which of the following commands is the most appropriate tool for this specific task?
The correct answer is traceroute. This command is specifically designed to trace the path that packets take to a network host. It displays each hop (router) along the path and the latency to that hop, making it the ideal tool for identifying where a delay is occurring in the network path. The ping command is useful for measuring the total round-trip latency to a destination but does not provide information about the intermediate hops. The netstat -s command displays network statistics for various protocols, which is useful for seeing error counts but not for tracing a path's latency. The ss -t command is used to display active TCP socket connections and is not used for measuring path latency.
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