Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:49:01 +1030 (CST) From: newton@communica.com.au (Mark Newton) To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Q] Traceroute and source routing Message-ID: <9511051219.AA10855@communica.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199511050248.TAA12757@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Nov 4, 95 07:48:11 pm
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > so...i want a source route option on traceroute.
>
> I saw patches for this floating around somewhere...
> Our ISP didn't support source routing at the router level (wonder why? 8-))
> so I didn't keep them.
AARNet and connect.com.au (two of the major ISPs in Australia) both
block source routing at their gateways too, meaning that a source-routed
traceroute would never get packets into Australia anyway (meaning
that the purpose the original poster requested it for would not be
fulfilled).
- mark
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