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nonrandomstring wrote:
I love snippets like this because they're so useful for teaching. Suits the "Socratic/inductive" method of saying "Oh, if only we had a tool that does this kind of route tracing ... Oh wait a minute ... Hmm what's traceroute do?"
They also demonstrate the Unix philosophy that more complex tools can be built from smaller ones.
Zoltan Nemeth wrote:
I glad to see this. I sometimes use this to troubleshoot on remote
systems with no traceroute
available.
Ilkka Oksanen wrote:
I remember reading that the creator of the original ping command said he was still slightly annoyed decades after that he didn't also invent traceroute at the same time.