What are the commands of Ping and Tracing Route

What are the commands of Ping and Tracing Route methods ? And how can I use them ? Can I trace route from my home PC to any site ?

Ping is a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network; it is also used to self-test the network interface card of the computer, or as a speed test. Ping is a computer network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network and to measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer.

Steps to Pinging our site
1-your computer should be connected to Internet
2-GO to Dos Prompt
3-On Dos Prompt write ping www.pakkasolutoin.blogspot.com
4-you will see the Pinging statistics

Trace route is often used for network troubleshooting. By showing a list of routers traversed, it allows the user to identify the path taken to reach a particular destination on the network. By experiment of this command you will see that tracing a route is more interesting tool than Ping as it tells about each computer that falls in the way of source and destination computers.



Steps to tracing yahoo site
1-your computer should be connected to Internet
2-GO to Dos Prompt
3-On Dos Prompt write tracert www.pakkasolutoin.blogspot.com
4-you will see the trace route statistics