Traceroute problem

[Jack Bowling]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 01:32:23PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running FC1 on an Athlon 2600 box. This is linked to the internet
> through a Netgear DG814 router. I have full internet access with http
> and can also use Bind tools such as dig. However, when I attempt to do a
> traceroute, I get the first record back for the router and then
> traceroute merely sits there returning "* * *" for each hop.
> 
> I have iptables set up and I figure that I have probably blocked
> something unintentionally.
> 
> Can anyone give me a pointer as to where I should look for a solution?

You likely are blocking the icmp-type "time exceeded" which traceroute
needs.

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Jack Bowling
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