[Sunhelp] Question

[Paul Zimdars]

Can not be round robin DNS. Because it will still just grab the first ip
of the list and traceroute to it. I can traceroute to it from any other
box.

Paul


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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, 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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> |Paul Zimdars                            (909)496-6040|
> |(909)496-6040       .oooO             www.zimcity.net|
> |                    (   )   Oooo.                    |
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