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Why do some host disable ICMP Time Exceeded (Type 11) messages? [closed]

While doing a traceroute for different servers, at times I find some host do not return ICMP 'Time to live exceeded in transit' (Type 11) messages and so I see a "* * *" instead of the server name and ...
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traceroute on Linux displays '* * *'

What is going on? If I run traceroute google.com it outputs 192.168.0.1 for the first router (which is correct) and threee *'s for the rest. I have tried disabling the FireWall on the router ...
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Traceroute to IP address fails, but traceroute to domain name with same IP address is okay. Why?

When I traceroute to this IP (108.162.198.181) it stops after 1 hop. But tracerouting to a domain (www.gomodule.com) with the same IP shows 9 hops ending in that target. traceroute to ...