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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:23:49 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Patrick Mahan <mahan@mahan.org>
Cc:        Zbigniew Szalbot <zszalbot@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
Subject:   Re: traceroute problems
Message-ID:  <20080311072300.K2678@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <47D5F4B5.1030309@mahan.org>
References:  <94136a2c0803101454l6ca76c99ma1fa1083d7ea2137@mail.gmail.com> <20080310231502.V7454@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <94136a2c0803101520p4f044ce4lae76975f899296e7@mail.gmail.com> <20080310232639.K7504@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080311023822.GA55240@osiris.chen.org.nz> <47D5F4B5.1030309@mahan.org>

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> to prevent you from learning about their routing paths.  In these cases,
> you get back the "1 * * *" type of output from traceroute.  Also, by
> default traceroute attempts to do a reverse DNS on the IP address, so
> you can speed things up by doing a 'traceroute -n' to avoid this look-up.
>
many commercial firewalls, including those in integrated devices, tend to 
block everything excluding often used services. some even block ICMP ping.



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