tracert timeout, should I be worried?

[Sodan]

Hi

This is my tracert output:

C:\>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.google.com [216.58.223.36]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  www.routerlogin.com [192.168.0.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3    30 ms    29 ms    27 ms  telkom-upload-vlan-barrack-ipc.vox.co.za [41.193.121.9]
  4    22 ms    22 ms    25 ms  vox-upload-teraco-cpt-barrack-ipc.vox.co.za [41.193.121.10]
  5    23 ms    24 ms    23 ms  vox-b2b-pts-barrack-ipc-int.vox.co.za [209.203.1.41]
  6    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  41.193.120.37
  7    44 ms    48 ms    47 ms  41.193.119.49
  8    51 ms    47 ms    48 ms  41.193.119.106
  9    89 ms    82 ms    84 ms  72.14.220.136
 10    43 ms    46 ms    44 ms  72.14.239.129
 11    49 ms    43 ms    44 ms  jnb01s08-in-f36.1e100.net [216.58.223.36]

Trace complete.

Line 2 doesn't appear healthy. Is this anything to be concerned about?

 

[Rickster]

Hop 2 is your exchange, ICMP is disabled so it wont show the ping.

 

[Sodan]

Aah, thanks! I did not know that.

Learn something new every day

Thank you

 

[itareanlnotani]

I'd be more concerned about backdoors in your netgear router.
Quite a few malware ridden ones around.

 

[biometrics]

I'd be more concerned about backdoors in your netgear router.
Quite a few malware ridden ones around.

This is the one malware that has me freaked out. I practice safe computing but firmware bugs, jeez ...

 

[Mr.Jax]

HOP 2 is not your exchange. HOP 2 can literally be anywhere in South Africa.

The HOP, directly after your router (2nd hop in this case), is your internet gateway. Its essentially the device that "connects" you to the internet.

Regarding no response in tracert: that's normal, it just means that it's been configured to ignore ICMP/Ping commands.