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I ran tracert for google.com and stackexchange.com getting these results:
The second one seems all fine. But why on earth doesn't the first one end with "google.com" but with some IP of my ISP?
I learned about the tracert command today, mind you, so please be forgiving and pedagogical.
The system is Windows 7.
There is no single machine somewhere named "google.com" for your trace to end on. Google's infrastructure isn't anywhere near that simple. When you access "google.com", you are given some convenient portal into a massive content distribution network involving a absurdly large number of individual machines. – David Schwartz – 2014-01-27T01:24:05.560