Hi Shirish,

Thank you for getting in touch and for the info on the bug, and
apologies for taking so long to get back to you.! I think the way to go
is move it to /sbin, will make the changes and get in touch with my
sponsor to confirm and upload.

Regards,
Ana


On Thu, Feb 2, 2017, at 08:45 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> I tried to dig in a bit more . I went to the site and saw the example
> given. I tried -
> 
> [$] dnstraceroute -p 80 debian.org
> 
>                            [2:16:59]
> dnstraceroute DNS: 192.168.1.1:80, hostname: debian.org, rdatatype: A
> Error: Unable to create ICMP socket with unprivileged user. Please run as
> root.
> 
> Just to see if the firewall is complicating things but even port 80
> was of no help :(
> 
> So it really comes out to being an unprivileged user who can't create
> ICMP sockets. As I don't know if there are any security implications
> of ICMP sockets being created by root will leave you to it.
> 
> -- 
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