How to Enable/Disable Traceroute via WHM?

February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 shrafsupportadmin 1016 Views

Silicon House offers Unlimited cPanel in Linux Reseller Hosting Packages. cPanel is a graphical interface designed to host your website. It has been popular control panel used in Linux hosting. cPanel has been provided with lot of features to design your website. Traceroute is a command which can show you the path a packet of information takes from your network to one you specify. It will list all the routers it passes through until it reaches its destination, or fails to and is discarded. In linux sever web hosting panel The system uses the permissions of the /bin/traceroute file to determine whether traceroute is enabled or disabled.

Kindly follow the below procedure to enable or disable the traceroute.

1. Login to the whm
2. Choose traceroute option under security center

755 indicates that traceroute is enabled.
700 indicates that traceroute is disabled.

Now you can enable/disable the traceroute via WHM.