[H-GEN] traceroute results query

[Rob Kearey]

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Darrin Mison wrote:

[Regarding traceroute]

> what do the !X 's mean?  I have no idea

>From the man page:

Other  possible  annotations after the time are !H, !N, or
!P (got a host, network or protocol  unreachable,  respec­
tively),  !S  or  !F (source route failed or fragmentation
needed - neither of these should ever occur and the  asso­
ciated  gateway  is busted if you see one), !X (communica­
tion administratively prohibited), or !<N> (ICMP  unreach­
able  code  N).   If  almost all the probes result in some
kind of unreachable, traceroute will give up and exit.

> Darrin Mison

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Rob Kearey
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