From: Mike N. 

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:36:03 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>If that's true, why is tracert so slow compared to the unix traceroute? Is
>it just doing serial communications and waiting for each response before
>doing the next? I always found that annoying and wished MS would fix it
>because it makes NT look bad compared to any unix.

   Tracert waits for both  the ICMP response and DNS lookup.  It is fairly
simple to do all the hops  in parallel with or without multithreading.

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5