Re: Traceroute

Roy P. Turner (ecstasy@dopamine.com)
Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:21:12 -0600


In message <5fauir$sio@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Cory Hill writes:
> Richard B. Johnson bored the masses when he said:
> : I thought that this has already been discovered. Maybe not. Traceroute
> : does not work on 2.1.27. I wondered if there is a patch yet available.
> : It looks as though only one raw socket is allowed now. Don't know why.
> : Also don't know why traceroute needs more than one raw socket. Is someone
> : working on this?
>
> I am running 2.1.27 and my traceroute works great:
>
> traceroute to www5.yahoo.com (204.71.177.70), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> 1 ts13.phx.primenet.com (206.165.11.13) 135.418 ms 147.046 ms 139.812
> ms
> 2 phx-2-fe0.primenet.net (206.165.11.254) 149.641 ms 137.537 ms
> 129.807 ms
> 3 phx-10-fe6/0.primenet.net (206.165.5.1) 179.729 ms 147.588 ms

My traceroute has not worked since 2.1.26 + 2.1.26-patch3 or with 2.1.27. Another friend also reports the same. It's definately affecting more than one or two of us. The traceroute i'm using is from Redhat 4.1 which is traceroute-1.0.4.4bsd.

Roy