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On Thursday 15 March 2007 07:28, Neil Stone wrote: > Is someone able to shed light on why I am able to ping a specific host, > but not traceroute to it ? > > I get 6 hops along the route and then it gives up.. Not 100% sure but traceroute uses ICMP which can be used to discover lots and lots about a network - so it would be sensible to 'disallow' it where thats not needed so traceroute will stop there Tom > > > Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html