Re: traceroute-like tool for UDP or TCP packets

["some guy" <someguy_555 () hotmail com>]

Linux uses UDP packets to traceroute, not ICMP packets like windows does.
Hope that helps,
-Scott


> From: "Kent James" <kent1 () caspia com>
> To: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Subject: traceroute-like tool for UDP or TCP packets
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:30:21 +0500
>
> 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
> +----------------+
>
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