wierd traceroute results ???/

[Jeff Goeke-Smith]

Well, let's see
The ip address of this first machine is 10.89.69.1 .  This implies it's part
of an internal network because 10.*.*.* is the reserved address space for
internal networks.

The IP address is at the start of a range of 255 address.  This might imply
that it is the default route for your logical network segment.  Most likely
(my guess) is that this is the default router that somebody hasn't bothered
giving a reverse name lookup, or that you might not be using the @home dns
servers and hence the reverse lookup isn't working right.

In other words, nothing unusual in my mind.

As for the game problems, you might be behind a firewall @home has setup to
block or severly throttle that specifc type of traffic, but that is again a
guess.

--Jeff Goeke-Smith


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Don Chorman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:26 PM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: wierd traceroute results ???/
>
>
> I have been trying to connect to an internet gaming service (WON)
> for the last two days. ( I really shouldn't be playing
> games..but what the
> heck)
> I haven't been able to connect, so I tried the gamespy network.
> I couldn't connect to any network games there  either. I thought
> that is might be my masquerading setup, so I hooked up my windows
> machine directly to the cable modem. Still no luck.
> While playing around with traceroute, I noticed a
> different machine for my first hop. I did two traces, one from each
> machine. Each machine was directly hooked up to the modem when
> I did the traces
>
> I'm curious as to what machine the first hop is.
> Any ideas??
>
>
>
> traceroute from Linux Machine:
> [root@Machine init.d]# traceroute www.att.com
> traceroute to www.att.com (192.20.3.54), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
>  1  * * *
> <------no machine listed here ????
>  2  bb1-fe1-0-100bt.elnsng1.mi.home.net (24.2.222.1)  17.953
> ms  24.878
> ms  15.827 ms
>  3  c1-se6-0.dtrtmi1.home.net (24.7.73.189)  12.586 ms  14.049 ms
> 11.597 ms
> ......  rest of hops not shown.
>
> tracert from windows machine:
> Tracing route to www.att.com [192.20.3.54]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>   1    15 ms    20 ms    16 ms  10.89.69.1
> <-------IP of machine listed here
>   2     8 ms    17 ms    34 ms  bb1-fe1-0-100bt.elnsng1.mi.home.net
> [24.2.222.1]
>   3    19 ms    92 ms    57 ms  c1-se6-0.dtrtmi1.home.net
> [24.7.73.189]
>
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