[Sunhelp] Question

mike mangino mangino at cis.ohio-state.edu
Wed Aug 4 14:20:53 CDT 1999


Traceroute does not come with Solaris 2.6, you need to add it. It does come with solaris 7 though.


On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:14:10PM -0700, Paul Zimdars wrote:
> Located in /usr/local/bin on Solaris 2.6
> Also..As root I am able to do a traceroute but I still get the
> Warning:Checksums disabled. 
> I checked the chmod settings for traceroute and it is set so that any user
> can activate it. 
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
>                          ''~``
>                         ( o o )
> +------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.------------------+
> |Paul Zimdars                            (909)496-6040|
> |(909)496-6040       .oooO             www.zimcity.net|
> |                    (   )   Oooo.                    |
> +---------------------\ (----(   )--------------------+
>                        _)    ) /
>                              (_/
> 
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, He Gang-W1268C wrote:
> 
> > May I ask  where traceroute command is? I am using solaris 2.6.  Excuse me
> > for my ignorance.
> > Gang
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steel, Nick - TPNWS [mailto:NSteel at sempra.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 2:38 PM
> > To: 'sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net'
> > Subject: FW: [Sunhelp] Question
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  H mm...I get this out of a Linux box.... 
> > 
> > [root at cbl-snicko /root]# traceroute yahoo.com -i eth1 
> > traceroute: Warning: yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 204.71.200.245 
> > 
> > [root at cbl-snicko /root]# nslookup yahoo.com 
> > Server:  rns1.earthlink.net 
> > Address:  207.217.126.81 
> > 
> > Non-authoritative answer: 
> > Name:    yahoo.com 
> > Addresses:  204.71.200.245, 204.71.200.243 
> > 
> > So it looks like it has round robin DNS, but that still doesn't explain the
> > permission denied. What could control passing ICMP packets besides a proxy
> > or a firewall?
> > 
> > - N 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Paul Zimdars [ mailto:pzimdars at zerg.crazyfoo.org
> > <mailto:pzimdars at zerg.crazyfoo.org> ] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 11:35 AM 
> > To: Steel, Nick - TPNWS 
> > Cc: 'sunhelp at ohno.mrbill.net' 
> > Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] Question 
> > 
> > 
> > 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 
> > 
> > 
> >                          ''~`` 
> >                         ( o o ) 
> > +------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.------------------+ 
> > |Paul Zimdars                            (909)496-6040| 
> > |(909)496-6040       .oooO             www.zimcity.net| 
> > |                    (   )   Oooo.                    | 
> > +---------------------\ (----(   )--------------------+ 
> >                        _)    ) / 
> >                              (_/ 
> > 
> > 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
> > <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 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >                          ''~`` 
> > >                         ( o o ) 
> > > +------------------.oooO--(_)--Oooo.------------------+ 
> > > |Paul Zimdars                            (909)496-6040| 
> > > |(909)496-6040       .oooO             www.zimcity.net| 
> > > |                    (   )   Oooo.                    | 
> > > +---------------------\ (----(   )--------------------+ 
> > >                        _)    ) / 
> > >                              (_/ 
> > > 
> > > 
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