Re: python traceroute

Subject	Re: python traceroute
From	William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com>
Date	2015-01-21 09:41 -0500
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> On Jan 21, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 19:37:26 -0800, Chandrakant Tiwari wrote:
> 
>> in the program below i want it to make it work  the same way as TRACERT 
>> command.
> 
> As an observation, you're re-inventing a wheel that already works 
> perfectly well, in that any failings of tracert tend to be more down to 
> the way routers are configured to handle icmp than the tracert 
> application itself. Unless you're doing this purely as an exercise in 
> socket programming with python, it might be better to find a new problem 
> to solve.
> 
> -- 
> Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com
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I’d further add that as a security measure these days, many (soon to be most) hosts are configured to throw icmp packets away without acknowledging them in any way.

Bill

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python traceroute Chandrakant Tiwari <chandrakant.tiwari204@gmail.com> - 2015-01-20 19:37 -0800
  Re: python traceroute Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-21 04:02 +0000
  Re: python traceroute Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 05:06 +0000
    Re: python traceroute William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2015-01-21 09:41 -0500

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