Sunday, March 28, 2010

Traceroute from Unix - Last call from RBI

We call him "DADA", our HP Super-dome champ in Reserve Bank of India, who only bugs us very rarely..

This time he was complaining me that some problem with traceroute to his remote storage, I reminded him traceroute implementation in unix uses udp packets, but I confirmed that its enabled in my firewall and ofcoz I could see the logs of packets traversing my firewall.

So I had to call the other end admin to check in his Firewall, unfortunately he is not available, DADA started blabbering that I need traceroute @#$$%^^^#@@(KARWAKE DENA), and I started thinking how to get out of this as its my Last Working Day in HCL as well as Reserve Bank of Inida..

I went thru the MAN pages of traceroute and found an option at last.. YESSSS..

"-I" was that option, thank god, this switch will instruct traceroute to use ICMP instead of UDP..


so syntax it is as follows..

root@V-PAR1# traceroute -I "DST IP"

Finally he got the trace and I got the way out of HCL.. :) but I was whispering that "UNIX is a real STUFF....":)

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