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Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you

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zeeb <zeeb@zeeb.zeeb> wrote:
> So, we know that most home routers ignore ICMP requests.

Do they? My sample size of around 10 would disagree with that. You'll
find some routers ignore some ICMP requests, but it would break Internet
traffic if all ICMP packets were ignored.


> I've tried every other protocol that traceroute offers and all I
> get back are * * * responses when trying to traceroute to a friend's
> home IP.

The intermediate devices are the ones returning data (or not) for the
corresponding intermediate hops. You won't reach your friend's home
router until you get to the appropriate hop.

If you're getting nothing at all then you need to consider whether one
of your systems is dropping ICMP Time Exceeded packets (it shouldn't be).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol#Time_exceeded

Chris

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Getting home addresses to respond to you zeeb <zeeb@zeeb.zeeb> - 2014-09-08 17:22 -0500
  Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2014-09-08 17:37 -0500
    Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you zeeb <zeeb@zeeb.zeeb> - 2014-09-08 17:50 -0500
      Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-09-09 08:59 +0200
      Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-09 10:23 +0000
        Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-09-09 12:21 +0100
  Re: Getting home addresses to respond to you Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2014-09-17 18:46 +0100

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