Can't traceroute to my box

[Joseph]

I'm just curious, Fernando.. On which platform are you using Netbsd?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fernando Gleiser" <fgleiser at cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To: "Frank DeChellis" <frankd at iaw.on.ca>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: Can't traceroute to my box


> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Frank DeChellis wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I am new to FreeBSD.  I have been using NetBSD for about 9 years.  I
have
> > FreeBSD v. 4.8 Release #1 running.  Everything is smooth expect for one
> > thing.
> >
> > I can't traceroute to the box.  I can do a traceroute -I to it, but not
a
> > regular traceroute, which tells me something about UDP, but I don't know
> > where to look.
>
> Are you using a firewall of some kind? The last hop of a traceroute
> ends with a 'Port unreachable" ICMP. If the firewall is blocking UDP,
> you get no response.
>
> >
> > IS there a file somewhere that is closing certain UDP ports that respond
to
> > traceroute?
>
> No that I am aware off, unless you're using a firewall.
>
>
> Fer
>
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