[plug] The world has disappeared

[Adam Hewitt]

Haven't any of you heard of tcptraceroute???

Adam.

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:27, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:35:25PM +0800, Steve Boak wrote:
> > > Seems like westnet don't like people tracerouting to their
> > > server...
> 
> > Now traceroute decides to work. Must be only some of westnet's servers 
> > blocking!
> 
> You can try a number of traceroute's. The default traceroute sends
> out UDP packets, but if you pass it the -I parameter, it chooses
> ICMP packets - some firewalls may pass one and deny the other. Then
> there's also tcptraceroute - which lets you traceroute using TCP
> packets on a certain port - also handy for testing behind tight
> firewalls.
> 
> In addition to all of that, it's quite possible that some routers
> and/or ISPs have blocked ICMP requests temporarily from clients to
> alleviate some of the impact of the latest M$ worm. Just a theory. :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bernard.