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From: Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
To: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>
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Subject: Re: Traceroute issues
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Quoting Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net>:

> > > Hi all.  Got a really weird issue here.  Got a router that uses 
> > > simple nat
> > > that for some reason won't allow me to traceroute out of my freebsd box,
> > > but every other computer connected to the router can, and can traceroute
> > > with flying colors.  What might possibly be wrong with my machine that I
> > > can't traceroute anywhere?
> >
> >Could if be that the other hosts are using ICMP instead of UDP for
> traceroute?
> >
> ># traceroute -I <hostname>
> 
>          Already tried that.  I think it may be the version of Traceroute 
> I'm using.  When I enter that command, all I get is this.
> 
> traceroute [-Sdnrv] [-w wait] [-m max_ttl] [-M min_ttl] [-P proto]
>           [-p port#] [-q nqueries] [-t tos] [-s src_addr] [-g gateway]
>           host [data_size]
> 
>          Any futher suggestions?  :)

Is this a router or true stateful firewall?  Take a look at the logs to see if 
you see unusual high port udp packets being dropped.

What OS are the other hosts that are able to traceroute?  

Finally, download and install latest traceroute (ports?)

--dax

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