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Sorry if my question is trivial, I tried to tracert to an ip address, and after first 12 hops I got request timed out for the rest, until reach a maximum of 30 hops. 

I assume that the machine is up and running since the list is refreshed (in the list , even though ping gives request time out). I know basic things from firewalls and gateways and how they can turn ping reply's off etc.

Question: what is the following behavior , if the host is not reachable why the TTL are increasing ? is this a packet loop for some reason ? Any chance the real location of the server is somewhere else and is passing through myriad proxies and thus 30+ hops?