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Re: question concerning traceroute?

  • From: Arnold Nipper
  • Date: Thu Oct 17 11:54:02 2002 
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:43:01AM -0700, k claffy wrote:
> 
> remark it is also possible for the (forward or reverse)
> path to change in the middle of the measurement,
> such that traceroute output would lead you
> to believe a path that never existed anywhere
> on the Internet (i.e., one that is not manifested
> in the current physical Internet) 
> and you would not be able to confirm for sure
> without asking the contacts for the IP links
> in question how they're connected.
> 

That's true but only if you have compiled traceroute
without "--enable-schroedinger" ;-))


-- Arnold