Hi,<br>
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Could you please help me understand the output of the following traceroute output. ?<br>
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a) My point of doubt is that from the 2nd hop the packets are hitting the same host (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>)<br>
and as you can see, this repeats intermittenly for the other following hops.<br>
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(a.1) How can the packets travel back to the same host again? <br>
(a.2) Does this indicate there was a loop formed (due to router fault?).<br>
(a.3) or Worse, is this a bug in Solaris 10 version of traceroute utility?<br>
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b) what does !H indicate in the hop output?<br>
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My System:> Solaris 10 on Sparc<br>
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Thanks<br>
>> Manjunath<br>
<br>================================================ Traceroute - capture -Start =======================<br>
traceroute <a href="http://198.133.219.25"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 198.133.219.25</a><br>
traceroute to <a href="http://198.133.219.25"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 198.133.219.25</a> (<a href="http://198.133.219.25"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 198.133.219.25</a>), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets<br>
1 <a href="http://fire.mycompany.com">fire.mycompany.com</a> (<a href="http://192.168.3.1"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 192.168.3.1</a>) 1.071 ms 0.443 ms 0.323 ms<br>
2 <a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a> (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>) 1.662 ms 1.716 ms 1.538 ms<br>
3 * * *<br>
4 * <a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a> (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>) 1.794 ms !H *<br>
5 * * *<br>
6 * * *<br>
7 * * *<br>
8 <a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a> (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>) 2.678 ms !H * *<br>
9 * <a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a> (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>) 2.548 ms !H *<br>
10 * * *<br>
11 * * <a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a> (<a href="http://203.200.10.209"><font color="red"><b>MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:</b></font> 203.200.10.209</a>) 1.937 ms !H<br>
12 * * *<br><br>================================================ Traceroute - capture - End =======================<br>