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What is the most likely cause of the responses on lines 10 and 11 of the output below?
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Penetration Testing Foundations & Reconnaissance
Question
What is the most likely cause of the responses on lines 10 and 11 of the output below?
Options
- AThe device at hop 10 silently drops UDP packets with a high destination port.
- BThe device at hop 10 is down and not forwarding any requests at all.
- CThe host running the tracer utility lost its network connection during the scan
- DThe devices at hops 10 and II did not return an "ICMP TTL Exceeded in Transit" message.
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Topics
#traceroute#ICMP TTL#network topology#firewall detection