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Date:      Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:30:09 -0700
From:      Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov>
To:        Gregory Kuhn <freebsd-net@lists.ctch.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Traceroute Anomaly 
Message-ID:  <20040820173009.4A6CBF987@gemini.nersc.gov>
In-Reply-To: Message from Gregory Kuhn <freebsd-net@lists.ctch.net>  <6.1.2.0.2.20040820102349.02ac6440@mail.ctch.net> 

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In reply to Gregory Kuhn <freebsd-net@lists.ctch.net> :

> Hello,
> 
> 
>          I have discovered an anomaly (I am sure it was discovered long 
> ago) when trying to traceroute to my FBSD 4.8 and 4.9 servers.  Here are 
> the details.

Have you set sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=1 ?

If so, the FreeBSD box will drop the traceroute UDP probes and you'll 
never see the host itself in traceroute output.

		--eli




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