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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: traceroute ????
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Date: 10 May 91 10:02:49 GMT
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In article <9105100850.AA13983@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> aets-kja-a-ao3@ansbach-emh1.army.mil ("Thomas F. Pockberger") writes:
>I know this is a "silly" question but still ....
>Can somebody explain me what traceroute is and how it works?
>Please don't revere me to the SA here, she doesn't know.

System administrators should always be revered :-)

I won't refer you to your SA, but I will refer you to the man page.  The
one we have contains a fairly complete description of how it works.

If you don't have the man page, send me mail and I'll forward it to you.
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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