(usagi-users 03484) Re: traceroute6 fails on 1 (2) machine

[Ivan Skytte Jørgensen <isj-usagi@xxxxx>]

On Friday 02 September 2005 07:35, Ivan Skytte Jørgensen wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2005 05:21, Yuji Sekiya wrote:
> > At Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:34:35 +0200,
> >
> > Ivan Skytte Jørgensen <isj-usagi@xxxxx> wrote:
> > > "ping6 www.kame.net" works on all machines.
> > > "telnet 2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085 80" works too on all
> > > machines. "traceroute6 -n -N 1 -q 1 www.kame.net" works on all machines
> > > EXCEPT C
> >
> > The traceroute6 command on some Linux distributions is broken
> > with -q 1 option. Please try the traceroute6 command in USAGI tree.
>
> Same symptoms without -q 1
>
> But I will try with the latest from the usagi tree. There could be some
> weird error on x86_64 where the problem occurs.

traceroute6 from the latest stable USAGI release works fine.

I was a bit puzzled by the command options and output. I then dug through the 
SuSE packages, net-tools, source packages, and finally discovered that the 
traceroute6 command in SuSE 9.3 is the version made by Olaf Kirch in 2002.

I am sorry for my noise here.