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From: "Gerold van Dijk" <gerold@sicon-sr.com>
To: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Alwin" <d_j_d@hotmail.com>,
	"oswin martopawiro" <o_martopawiro@hotmail.com>,
	"guno" <guno@sicon-sr.com>, "albert" <albert@sicon-sr.com>
Subject: Re: traceroute bug ?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:37:23 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002201c624bf$fdcc83b0$1701a8c0@gerold> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200601271852.k0RIqaC0023706@turing-police.cc.vt.edu

Dear Valdis et.al.,

thanks for biting! I really tested this thing thoroughly, with different 
distributions (Red Hat, SuSE 8.0 and 10.0) on different machines with the 
firewalls completely open, and without any router or switch involved: cross 
cable straight from one machine to another!

IF I ONLY CHANGE TO ANOTHER IP BLOCK (E.G. 206.253.5.64/24) OR A PRIVATE 
RANGE (E.G. 192.168.1.0/24) THE TRACEROUTE WORKS FINE! SO IT IS SPECIFICALLY 
THIS 207.253.5.0/24 BLOCK THAT DOES NOT TRACEROUTE WITHIN IT'S OWN RANGE!

Not only the subnetwork 207.253.5.64/27 but the whole class C block 
207.253.5.0/24 !?

Just to be complete: we CAN ping normally within this network!

But the traceroute simple displays "*  *  *" row after row!

Of course it is not that urgent a problem, cause what is the sense of doing 
a traceroute within your own network anyway? But I thought it might be 
useful to report this strange thing!

Thank you all for your time!

Regards,

Gerold H. van Dijk

Research & Training Manager

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 15:38:23 -0300, Gerold van Dijk said:
> Why can I NOT do a traceroute specifically within my own (sub)network
>
> 207.253.5.64/27
>
> with any distribution of Linux??

OK.. I'll bite.  What happens when you try?  And why are you posting here - 
is
there *any* evidence that there is a Linux kernel bug involved?

The output of 'ifconfig' and 'netstat -r -n' would likely be helpful, as 
would
proof that the host(s) you're tracerouting from and to are *not* running a
firewall that interferes with the way traceroute functions. (It's amazing 
how
many people block all ICMP, then wonder why traceroute doesn't work... ;)

Watching the wire with 'tcpdump' and/or 'ethereal' can also help....


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-29 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-27 18:38 traceroute bug ? Gerold van Dijk
2006-01-27 18:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-01-29 10:37   ` Gerold van Dijk [this message]
2006-01-27 18:57 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-27 21:45   ` OT: " ed
2006-01-27 18:59 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-27 19:34 ` Kyle Moffett

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