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Re: question concerning traceroute?


From: Arnold Nipper <arnold () nipper de>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 17:51:46 +0200


On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:43:01AM -0700, k claffy wrote:

remark it is also possible for the (forward or reverse)
path to change in the middle of the measurement,
such that traceroute output would lead you
to believe a path that never existed anywhere
on the Internet (i.e., one that is not manifested
in the current physical Internet) 
and you would not be able to confirm for sure
without asking the contacts for the IP links
in question how they're connected.


That's true but only if you have compiled traceroute
without "--enable-schroedinger" ;-))


-- Arnold


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