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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.

19 Feb 2022 06:50 GMT | #1 of 3 comments

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.

19 Feb 2022 11:30 GMT | #2 of 3 comments

Zoltan Nemeth wrote:

I glad to see this. I sometimes use this to troubleshoot on remote systems with no traceroute available.

20 Feb 2022 10:21 GMT | #3 of 3 comments
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