[93878] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: would you run this little script, please
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Jan 2 17:40:47 2007
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:39:39 -1000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20070102173047.c74b6851.darcy@druid.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I am on a NetBSD machine. What did you want from ifconfig? I am
> guessing "ifconfig -a".
yep. just trying to learn whence the trace originated. this was
supposed to be fixed. apologies.
also the ! in the mail test is reversed. also was supposed to have been
fixed. and heas had a good sendmail direct hack that got missed from
the review set. <sigh>
and yes, there are problems on old bsds, some fedoras, ... with the -I
on the traceroute. but, in tests, udp traceroute gave much worse
results despite icmp trace theoretically not working as vern points out
that rfc 792 (4th paragraph of intro) says
The ICMP messages typically report errors in the processing of
datagrams. To avoid the infinite regress of messages about messages
etc., no ICMP messages are sent about ICMP messages.
but, my deep apologies for not personally testing that the test folk's
corrections were made before sending. grrrr
randy
