traceroute

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> > missing the purpose of traceroute.  Traceroute shows the route from one
>>host to another.  If you're tracerouting your own host, then there can 
>>be only one hop, 
>
>understood.
>
>> unless your routing table is busticated.
>>
>
>I just want a way to traceroute my own host as if I was from another 
>remote host. So there is no method to do so. thanks.

A traceroute from your host to the one you would like to try from might
produce something useful although routing isn't necessarily symmetric.

Typically I want to do traceroutes back to our site from a customer's site
to identify where a routing blockage or bottleneck occurs.  I've had
instances where the only way I could work on a customer's machine when
there was a problem, say between Sprint, and Global Crossing, was to ssh
into another customer's system served by another backbone provider, than
from there to the target system.

Bill
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