[Sunhelp] Question

mike mangino mangino at cis.ohio-state.edu
Wed Aug 4 13:19:35 CDT 1999


Is traceroute running setuid root? It should be. It looks like some things are hosed up in your IP configuration (although I'm definitely not solaris knowledgeable)


On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:56:29AM -0700, Steel, Nick - TPNWS wrote:
> I don't think there's much you can fix. 
> 
> Yahoo uses a roundrobin DNS to spread the load over multiple servers, so
> every time you do a lookup, you get a different IP address. 
> 
> As for checksums, I dunno what that means, hopefully someone with a bit
> better insight into this could provide some info?
> 
> The permission denied error is probably due to yahoo blocking icmp packets. 
> 
> In short, nothing you can control....
> 
> - N
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Zimdars [mailto:pzimdars at zerg.crazyfoo.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 11:17 PM
> To: sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net
> Subject: [Sunhelp] Question
> 
> 
> I get this when I try to run traceroute..
> I think it happened because I ran aset -l med
> and it changed everything.
> 
> Below:
> [pzimdars at paul pzimdars]$ traceroute yahoo.com
> traceroute: Warning: ckecksums disabled
> traceroute: Warning: yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using
> 204.71.200.245
> traceroute: icmp socket: Permission denied
> 
> How do I fix that by using super user?
> 
> What does it all exactly mean?
> 
> Paul Zimdars
> 
> 
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