When I want to traceroute a government restricted IP, I am only seeing my local router’s IP and private NAT IP addresses. After that, all I see is asterisks all over there. This is my example output:
traceroute to x.com (172.66.0.227), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 home (192.168.1.1) 0.332 ms 0.437 ms 0.553 ms
2 172.x.x.x (172.x.x.x) 2.862 ms 2.837 ms 2.859 ms
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
Normally I see at least an ISP address after private IP but there are only two IPs in this case. Did it not reach to even ISP server? Where did ICMP timeout responses come from? My router does not have any special configuration for this. I wonder how it can be possible.
