Determining availability of a remote machine

[Kim Holburn]

At 6:20 PM +1000 2003/04/02, Warwick Mitchell wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Steve Jenkin wrote:
>
>> 'traceroute' relies on the proper intermediate handling of expired 'time to
> > live', not ICMP ECHO (ping).
> >
>
>It's still ICMP.

It relies on an icmp reply to a udp packet (port not in use or some such.  The icmp is generated by the remote machine not traceroute.

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