From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 1 13:59:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7CE637B40B for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.200] (we-24-165-162-245.we.mediaone.net [24.165.162.245]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f91KxkZ25118; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:59:46 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.1.3108 Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:59:47 -0700 Subject: Re: traceroute only works after ping From: xique To: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011001135855.03f12c60@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10/1/01 11:58 AM, "jacks@sage-american.com" wrote: > Don't know the answer to that one, but recommend installing and using "mtr" > from the ports/net instead of traceroute.... live stats and more.... > >> Perhaps someone can help explain this odd behavior. If I do a traceroute to >> any host on the Internet it times out. If I ping the host first and then do a >> traceroute it works fine. [...] Well mtr is indeed nice. And it works. :) Probably because it's pinging the hosts first. I'm still interested in figuring out why traceroute fails, though, if anyone else has any insight. Thanks! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message