Re: extern IP

[John Summerfield]

Joost De Cock wrote:
Quoting Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
 

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Joost De Cock wrote:
   

To find out it's address, just do a traceroute:
traceroute debian.org
First address is the dlink internal interface, second address is the one
     

you
   

want. (the public address)
     

When I do this I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute debian.org
traceroute to debian.org (192.25.206.10), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1  * * *
2  * * *
3  * * *
4  * * *
5  * * *
6  * * *
7  * * *
8  * * *
<snip>
How come? Blocked somewhere? I can't see my firewall blocking anything; do
I need to forward something from the router? I would prefer to use this
method than my links -dump parsing.
   

Yes, looks like the icmp packets are dropped. Oh well, here's another way:
 

traceroute uses UDP. Looks like a tight firewall:-)
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