Re: [OT] Pinging and traceroute

On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:04:26AM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Any ideas why I'm unable to run a traceroute to an IP address without > first pinging it ?? If I try and trace a site, it does little to I am not sure here. > I do have an IPTABLES firewall running. Pinging a site does nothing t

[OT] Pinging and traceroute

Any ideas why I'm unable to run a traceroute to an IP address without first pinging it ?? If I try and trace a site, it does little to nothing. Here's what a trace to www.debian.org shows after 15 seconds: traceroute www.debian.org traceroute to www.debian.org (198.186.203.20), 30 hops max, 38 by