Re: traceroute-like tool for UDP or TCP packets

[Sven Pfeifer <sven () yagonna de>]

Hi Kent,

Kent James <kent1 () caspia com> wrote:
> One of the local ISPs is having trouble getting DNS information from
> Easydns. I suspect they have a misconfigured firewall or other security
> block in their system. I can ping and traceroute the DNS servers but get no
> response from UDP or TCP packets.
>
> Is there a tool that works like traceroute, only shows the route for TCP or
> UDP packets instead of the ICMP packets that traceroute uses?
>
> +----------------+
>   Kent James, Ph.D, MCSE
>   Computer network support in Baku, Azerbaijan
> +----------------+

what do aou think of

        http://www.vdberg.org/~richard/tcpping.html
or
        http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/
        
HTH


        Sven

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