[26962] in Athena Bugs
Re: traceroute on the dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Sep 13 07:34:12 2006
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:33:48 -0400
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Jonathon's email about xscreensaver reminds me -- what's up with this?
Can we trade traceroute for xscreensaver? :)
--jhawk
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> wrote on Tue, 5 Sep 2006
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> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:18:22 -0400 (EDT)
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> Hi.
>
> Based on conversation today, I notice that traceroute does not
> work on the dialups. Camilla seemed to think that this was a long-standing
> state, but my recollection is that it is much more recent problem.
>
> Having traceroute on the dialups is incredibly useful. It's not
> rare that normal users need someplace to login to try to run network
> diagnostics, and ping and traceroute are pretty basic and essential.
>
> Not everyone has access to private machiens where they can login
> to run these kinds of diagnostic tools, and I think it's especially
> important that they be available to everyone.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --jhawk
