Re: basic ping diff with windows ping

[Adam Hardy <adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com>]

Camaleón on 24/10/10 21:21, wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:30:51 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
> > Camaleón on 24/10/10 19:50, wrote:
>  
> > > The "magic" is done when using "-I" flag.
> > >
> > > Try:
> > >
> > > traceroute -I mktgw1.ibllc.com
> > I played around with -I and -T and didn't get any better results, which
> > is why I thought it must be something else. Actually though I do get the
> > last hop with -I but I lose the IP addresses of several steps along the
> > way:
>
> (...)
>
> Okay, okay... let's add more magic:
>
> traceroute -I -n mktgw1.ibllc.com
>
> No name resolve but all the hosts are there (and is very quick) :-)

Haha! You can guess what I'm going to ask next, I expect.

This is not in the docs which surprises me.

I want host name resolution, but if I don't get it, I want the IP address. It 
seems linux-ping can only give me a host name or stars, and if I want IP 
addresses, I can't have host name resolution.

Or am I wrong? Any more magic out there?