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+filetype: traceroute
+
+detect: 
+    filename: "\\.traceroute$"
+    header: "(^traceroute to[[:space:]]+[\\S+])"
+
+rules:
+    # IP
+    - blue: "\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}\\.\\d{1,3}"
+    # IP v6
+    - blue: "(([0-9a-fA-F]{1,4})?\\:\\:?[0-9a-fA-F]{1,4})+"
+    # host
+    - yellow: "\\s\\w+[\\w\\-\\.]+\\w+"
+    - cyan: "\\s([0-9\\.]+) ms"
+    # ttl
+    - green: "ttl=\\d+\\!"
+    # errors
+    - red: "DUP\\!"
+    - red: "(Destination Host Unreachable|100(\\.0)?% packet loss)"
+    - red: ".+unknown\\shost\\s(.+)"
+    - red: "Temporary failure in name resolution"
+    - red: "\\*"
+