The --traceroute feature provides information about what aspect of the network?

• A. The network path to each host
• B. DNS resolutions results
• C. The open ports only
• D. The list of active services

Answer: (A)

Traceroute is about the route from your machine to a target host. It shows each hop along the path and the time to reach those hops, giving you a view of the network path and any routing or filtering in between. When you use --traceroute, Nmap adds probes to map that path for each target, focusing on the route rather than what ports are open or what services are running. DNS resolution results, open ports, and active services are discovered by other scanning steps, not by traceroute. So the information provided is the network path to each host.