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Re: [LUG] Oddity...

 

On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:28, Neil Stone wrote:
> Is someone able to shed light on why I am able to ping a specific host,
> but not traceroute to it ?
>
> I get 6 hops along the route and then it gives up..
Not 100% sure but traceroute uses ICMP which can be used to discover lots and 
lots about a network - so it would be sensible to 'disallow' it where thats 
not needed so traceroute will stop there
Tom
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> Neil 


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