From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 10:56:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24759 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vpm.com ([207.49.29.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24754 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by vpm.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA14027 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:58:18 -0700 From: Mark Stout Message-Id: <199606261758.KAA14027@vpm.com> Subject: Traceroute broken? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:58:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi: In attempting to prove that there's troubles on my providers network, I have been using traceroutes from an external server (netcom.com) to my server (vpm.com). There's definately a problem and that started around May 15th. They are starting to listen and agree that there's a problem. Yesterday, they switched routers and now we're seeing the probes reporting that they're going through the router twice, see lines 2 & 3 below. traceroute to netcom.com (192.100.81.100), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 207.49.29.1 (207.49.29.1) 2.350 ms 1.474 ms 1.571 ms 2 eli-xmission.elix.net (206.29.193.17) 234.097 ms 238.531 ms 269.348 ms 3 eli-xmission.elix.net (206.29.193.17) 231.281 ms 187.589 ms 200.228 ms 4 core1-fddi.SaltLake.elix.net (207.0.56.17) 239.250 ms 185.512 ms 161.534 They are telling us that FreeBSD & Linux's traceroute program is broken. I didn't see this before the move, so I need some input from you someone who may know more than I do so I can have some ammunition to discount their thoery. I don't see the router twice when I do a traceroute from netcom.com, which runs SunOS. Another thing is I can't do a traceroute using the -s . It just times out. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Mark -- ========================================================================== Mark Stout | The Village Potpourri Mall: http://www.vpm.com/ ---------------+---------------------------------------------------------- VPM Enterprises; P.O.Box 6427; Folsom, CA 95763-6427 Secured Web Hosting and Secured Discussion Groups Secured Internet Sales, Marketing and Advertising Specialist ==========================================================================