I am trying to use traceroute unix program to find the route to a host.
I tried traceroute www.google.com and I end up seeing only asterisks printed. Examples on the internet uses the same command and it seems to work well. I tried increasing the waitime value using -w switch. Still does not work.
Answer
Well, you get your answer almost a year later. I personally was wondering the same thing, so I did some googling and found this answer on webmasters.
If a packet is not acknowledged within the expected timeout, an asterisk is displayed.