Re: Trace Route Question (fwd)
Alexander Zatko (ptd@oz.net)
Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:26:47 -0800
> >> > Once upon a time Jed Stafford shaped the electrons to say...
> >> > >When we trace route to our servers we get a Request timed out message
> >> > >everytime 1 hop away from our router. Here is a copy of the trace route.
> >> > >
> >> > >Tracing route to ixa.net [199.242.19.1]
> >> > >over a maximum of 30 hops:
> >> > >
> >> > > 1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 206.129.67.11 (<---ROUTER)
> >> > > 2 * * * Request timed out.
> >> > > 3 13 ms 12 ms 12 ms border14-ser-1.sea.IXA.net
> >> > >[204.194.9.105]
> >> > > 4 16 ms 15 ms 22 ms border10-eth-0.sea.IXA.net
> >> > >[199.242.16.60]
> >> > > 5 21 ms 23 ms 20 ms pike-ser-0-T1.sea.IXA.net [204.194.9.62]
> >> > > 6 22 ms 35 ms 21 ms ixa.net [199.242.19.1]
> >> > >
> >> > >Can anyone advise as to what we need to do, or have our ISP do to
> >> > >prevent this from happening. We have a IRX-211.
I have been told by Livingston that this is bug in their OS. Here is the
bit of e-mail I have got:
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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:20:02 -0800
To: sano@ns.strings.net (Alexander Zatko)
From: John Storms <jstorms@livingston.com>
Subject: Re: traceroute
>In regards to the problem you were having with tracerouting through a
>PortMaster. We've been able to pinpoint the problem in the code that causes
>this to happen. Its a very easy bug to fix and will be fixed in the next
>release.