ISP question [ was traceroute , pls ]

Collins Richey crichey at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 09:25:16 PDT 2008


On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:33 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then change the port.  I can't believe they'd be blocking all udp
> ports.  And if they are, you have the ability to traceroute via tcp
> (and I'm sure they're not blocking port 80).
>
> man traceroute

Wow, that one's a keeper. A udp traceroute dies out after about 19
hops, but a -T traceroute (root only) gets to the destination. Take
that, Comcast.

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Collins Richey
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