Alex van Denzel <bitbucket@adenzel.demon.nl> typed:
:Paul Goyette wrote:
:> The firewall is probably blocking most UDP ports;  traceroute uses
:> UDP.  Ping works because ping uses ICMP ECHO messages....
:Does it?.
:I heard about traceroute implementations using ICMP ECHOs with
:timetolive set from 1 up, and display the ``can't forward'' messages. 

That's ``tracert'' - MS Window's traceroute, and does it on
``time exceeded (in transit)'' replies.

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