Traceroute only showing private layer3 hops and then direct end destination

[Nitin Nayar]

I am doing a traceroute to salesforce.com, google.com and I see all the layer hops to my Firewall and then one hop to final destination- which is incorrect. I am not seeing any of the intermediate public hops (and surprisingly not seeing the

Do you know why is this the case? Is this a Firewall config issue?

[root@XXX]# traceroute -T -p 80 www.salesforce.com traceroute to www.salesforce.com (96.43.148.26), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 10.100.151.252 0.846 ms
2 10.100.1.158 0.435 ms 3 10.100.1.46 0.314 ms
4 10.200.250.9 6.132 ms 5 10.201.1.53 6.363 ms 6 www-was-1.salesforce.com (96.43.148.26)

[Marvin Rhoads]

Usually it means that the firewall (and subsequent intervening devices) are not configured to decrement the icmp time to live parameter that traceroute depends on.