[ale] Problem with traceroute

[Jim Moore]

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 09:45 -0400, Jim Moore wrote:
>   
>> Installed netselect package and am trying to run the command - 
>> netselect-apt -n etch -o /etc/apt/sources.list - to determine the 
>> fastest debian mirror for my updates.
>> It acquired the list of mirrors and then after a pause tells me that
>> it 
>> can't traceroute and that possibly a firewall is preventing it from
>> working.
>> Then I went to the gui net tool in debian and tried a traceroute to a 
>> known address, Yahoo.  It showed hop 1 as my router, then hop 2 as 
>> launchmodem, the DSL modem, and never gets past that,  each
>> successive 
>> hop past that is just a line of asterisks.
>> How do I get around this, defeat it or whatever.
>> Jim
>>     
>
> Can you paste the exact output from a couple of different sites?  Maybe
> there is a common point along the path where it breaks.  If that's the
> case, then one of the routers along the way may not be permitting the
> traceroute packets through.
>
> These are on different networks, so they should be useful in determining
> if the problem is on your ISP's side or wherever:
>
>   slashdot.org
>   google.com
>   www.trausch.us [@ NearlyFreeSpeech.net]
>   allspice.trausch.us [@ Comcast]
>
> 	--- Mike
>
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Here is to Yahoo:
 traceroute 66.94.234.13
traceroute to 66.94.234.13 (66.94.234.13), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  wgt624 (192.168.1.97)  2.070 ms  1.862 ms  1.791 ms
 2  launchmodem (192.168.1.254)  2.523 ms  2.683 ms  2.920 ms
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 

Here is to GTEI.net traceroute 4.2.2.2
traceroute to 4.2.2.2 (4.2.2.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  wgt624 (192.168.1.97)  1.909 ms  1.935 ms  1.823 ms
 2  launchmodem (192.168.1.254)  2.596 ms  3.283 ms  2.584 ms
 3  * * *
 4  * * *


Jim