From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 04:19:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA01089 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 04:19:29 -0800 Received: from psychotic.communica.com.au (root@gw.communica.com.au [203.8.94.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA01084 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 04:19:25 -0800 Received: from communica.com.au (newton@frenzy [192.82.222.1]) by psychotic.communica.com.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA05524; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:49:10 +1030 Received: by communica.com.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10855; Sun, 5 Nov 95 22:49:01 CDT From: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton) Message-Id: <9511051219.AA10855@communica.com.au> Subject: Re: [Q] Traceroute and source routing To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:49:01 +1030 (CST) Cc: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511050248.TAA12757@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 4, 95 07:48:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 760 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert wrote: > > so...i want a source route option on traceroute. > > I saw patches for this floating around somewhere... > Our ISP didn't support source routing at the router level (wonder why? 8-)) > so I didn't keep them. AARNet and connect.com.au (two of the major ISPs in Australia) both block source routing at their gateways too, meaning that a source-routed traceroute would never get packets into Australia anyway (meaning that the purpose the original poster requested it for would not be fulfilled). - mark --- Mark Newton Email: newton@communica.com.au Systems Engineer Phone: +61-8-373-2523 Communica Systems WWW: http://www.communica.com.au