Thanks for the picture.

It looks like there's a TTL bug with this server - where it sets the TTL of the returning packet to match the TTL of the incoming one. This isn't too common these days, but does happen occasionally.

All those intermediate empty "hops" are not real - this is just because of the TTL bug.

This shouldn't happen on other servers, so I recommend using a different target to troubleshoot - that will make things a lot easier.

- Pete