traceroute

[James McDonald]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004, Man-wai Chang wrote:
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>>>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, 
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>>understood.
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>>>unless your routing table is busticated.
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>>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.
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>A traceroute from your host to the one you would like to try from might
>produce something useful although routing isn't necessarily symmetric.
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>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.
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I live in Australia and my brother lives in London so having a shell 
session on his boxes can come in handy when doing 'external' testing.