On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 06:25:31PM +0000, sena wrote: > Hi. > > When using traceroute (as root), I get the following problem: > > decoy:~# traceroute 194.65.3.20 > traceroute to 194.65.3.20 (194.65.3.20) from decoy, 30 hops max, 38 byte > packets > traceroute: sendto: Operation not permitted > 1 traceroute: wrote 194.65.3.20 38 chars, ret=-1
This is a sign that you have an ipchains (or ipfwadm or iptables...) rule that is forbidding output of UDP. > Note that all is fine whan using, for instance, ping: ping uses ICMP, not UDP. > Anyone has any clue to what may be the problem? Yes. > I'm using woody, with kernel 2.2.18 (self-compiled) and traceroute is > version 1.4a8. Look at your filtering rules. -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;