Which of the following tools is used to detect round-robin-load-balancing?

traceroute uses ICMP echo requests or UDP and does not establish TCP connections, making it less effective at revealing application-layer load balancing decisions.

tcptrace is a post-capture analysis tool that parses existing tcpdump packet capture files rather than actively probing a network path.

TCP SYN scanning is a port discovery technique used in network reconnaissance and does not trace routing paths or expose load balancer rotation.

tcptraceroute uses TCP SYN packets instead of ICMP or UDP to trace the route to a destination, which allows it to bypass firewalls that block ICMP. Because it establishes actual TCP connections, repeated runs can expose round-robin DNS or load balancer rotation by returning different hop endpoints or destination IPs. This makes it suitable for detecting that multiple servers are serving the same hostname in rotation.