XRI Traceroute shows you information about every single step of the XRI resolution process, including the final service endpoint selection. It displays the individual subsegments, authorities and time in milliseconds, as well as trust and reference information, if available.

The first step of the Traceroute output always displays the name of the root authority used by the resolver with a time of 0 milliseconds, since this is part of the local resolver configuration. It is debatable whether this information is actually a part of the resolution process, but we decided to include it in our tool.

If the whole resolution process succeeds, including the final local resolution step, the found Service Endpoints (URLs) are displayed as the final steps. This is usually just one URL, but can be more, depending on the final XRI authority.

If overall resolution fails, the successful steps are still shown, with an error message at the end.

Therefore, similar to a traditional Traceroute program, if you have problems with your XRI, you can check at which point an error occurs.