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- From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
- Subject: Re: traceroute on Sparcs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.202701.10793@noao.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:27:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.012141.6199@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Marty Slade) writes:
- >The Dec. 1992 issue of SunExpert mentions the "traceroute" utility
- >which allows the sysadmin of a UNIX box to find the (current) route to
- >a remote host. (This was in the "Ask Mr. Protocol" column.) I cannot
- >find this in Sun-supplied utilities. Can anyone please point to a
- >ftp site which can supply this utility?
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- Try anonymous ftp to gatekeeper.dec.com, in
- /pub/net/jacobson/traceroute.tar.Z. (There are some scary-sounding comments
- about kernel mods being needed in the README file, but I just downloaded,
- compiled and ran it sucessfully on a stock 4.1.1 Sparc 1+.)
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- Jim Davis | "It's hard to make something that bad even WORSE."
- jdavis@noao.edu | -- Clarissa Darling
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