On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 03:29:41PM -0400, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote:
> Package: mtr
> Version: 0.86-1+b1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> A new upstream release 0.87 has a fix (of sorts) for the problem where MTR
> will not trace a successful path that has more than five non-responding
> hops. I say fix "of sorts" because the default limit for this has not been
> changed, but it is now possible to override that default on the command
> line. FWIW the MTR git shows that an upcoming not-yet-released version also
> increases the default to a more reasonable value.
No! Not a "more reasonable" value! An outrageous value!
You have a network where 5 hops-in-a-row don't conform to IP standards. And
then you expect mtr to work?
Roger.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>
> Versions of packages mtr depends on:
> ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
> ii libc6 2.24-3
> ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1+b1
> ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7
> ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3+b1
> ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.0-1
> ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.0-2
> ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-1
> ii libncurses5 6.0+20160917-1
> ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
> ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
> ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.40.3-2
> ii libtinfo5 6.0+20160917-1
>
> mtr recommends no packages.
>
> mtr suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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