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Date:      Mon, 3 Oct 2016 08:35:13 -0700
From:      Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To:        Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: UDP Traceroute on FreeBSD
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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD is able to respond to traceroute
> packets transported over UDP?
>

Absolutely, yes - unless firewall rules drop stray UDP packets inbound, or
the kernel parameter net.inet.udp.blackhole is set to 1.

Also note that traceroute only yields the expected behavior (an ICMP
PORT_UNREACHABLE which terminates the trace) if nothing is listening on the
selected port on the IP address you're tracerouting to.

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