Re: [bug-inetutils] traceroute -- permissions, setuids, etc..

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   address@hidden ~]$ ~/bin/traceroute gnu.org
   traceroute to gnu.org (199.232.41.10), 64 hops max
    1   192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 0.427ms 0.416ms 0.529ms
    2   121.247.231.1 (121.247.231.1) 27.502ms 26.974ms 27.517ms
    3   *  *  *
    4   172.31.9.129 (172.31.9.129) 32.944ms 28.086ms 28.716ms
    5   172.31.2.194 (172.31.2.194) 27.865ms 27.705ms 27.892ms
   [...]

   So shall I go ahead and remove those two lines?

If you are sure that it will work, feel free to do so. But I recall
that there are some switches or something that requires root privs for
traceroute.

   address@hidden ~]$ /bin/traceroute -M default gnu.org
   traceroute to gnu.org (199.232.41.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
    1  192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254)  14.547 ms  14.581 ms  14.712 ms
    [...]
   address@hidden ~]$ /bin/traceroute -M icmp gnu.org
   The specified type of tracerouting is allowed for superuser only

   However, this one needs a Linux 2.6 kernel. Is this requirement going
   to be an issue for us?

Yes, Linux is not the only kernel out there.