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What is the range of ports that is usually used in the traceroute command?

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I wanted to know if there is a range which is usually used for destination port that is used in traceroute command. Like the starting address for destination port is 33434. but is there some standard range which is preferred for traceroute ?

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Using UDP for traceroute is considered by some poor practice, because UDP is supposed to be a data-carrying application protocol. ICMP is the preferred method, though there is no standard. The main reason to use ICMP is that UDP can carry a payload,…

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