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Old 24th October 2008
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Originally Posted by DutchDaemon View Post
Not every network on the internet allows traceroute through, so 'not reaching a host' using traceroute doesn't mean a lot.
Installing tcptraceroute makes things a lot nicer. It uses TCP packets, and you can select which port to use (defaults to 80). It's a lot nicer to be able to use tcptraceroute remote.server 22 to debug connection issues.
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