traceroute problems

[Wojciech Puchar]

> What should I be diagnosing if I cannot use traceroute? Whatever
> domain I try to check, it always times out. The box is behind a
> hardware firewall. It also uses pf to some minor degree. However,

what do you mean "hardware firewall"?

> pfctl -d does not allow me to traceroute either.
>
> $ traceroute -v freebsd.org
> traceroute to freebsd.org (69.147.83.40), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
>
> 1  * * *
> 2  * * *
> 3  * * *
> 4  * * *

your firewall (whatever "hardware" means) probably block traceroute 
packets