SUMMARY: traceroute 1.4a5 problem

From: Robert Glover (r_glover@wapol.gov.au)
Date: Mon Mar 23 1998 - 19:36:58 CST


Original question below.
Many thanks for the replies from:
John Horne j.horne@plymouth.ac.uk
Jeff Zabek jzabek@xionics.com
Jack Smith smith35@llnl.gov
Brent Parish bparish@pfn.com

and the following who provided the correct answer:-
Chris Liljenstolpe cds@io.com
Ronald Loftin rloftin@mailbox.syr.edu
Espinoza Bismarck bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov

The problem on the Solaris 2.6 machine was in the /etc/nsswitch.conf
file where I had files and nisplus the wrong way around in the protocols
entry. I changed this and it now works.
A couple of people suggested it may be a permissions problem but it was
already running suid root.
Once again many thanks to all. Great List.
Regards
Rob

ORIGINAL QUESTION
Dear All,

System SS1000E
Sparc Compiler 4.2
Solaris 2.6
I am having some problems with Traceroute 1.4a5 compiled on the above.
It compiles OK but when I run it it gives:
traceroute: Warning: checksums disabled
traceroute: unknown protocol icmp
The first message is expected with Solaris 2.6.
According to the README the second message is due to icmp missing from the
/etc/protocols file but this is not the case. It's definately there. I am able
to take the same binary compiled on the above machine and run it on a 2.5.1
machine without any problems although with the checksum warning. Is there
something about Solaris 2.6 that I have missed here?
Thanks in advance
As always will summarise
Regards
Rob
Rob Glover
Unix System Administrator
Western Australian Police Service
Phone +61 8 9222 1733
Fax +61 8 9222 1698



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