Bug#487736: O: tcptraceroute -- A traceroute implementation using TCP packets
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of tcptraceroute, David Coe <davidc@debian.org>,
is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package
now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: tcptraceroute
Binary: tcptraceroute
Version: 1.5beta6-2.1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: David Coe <davidc@debian.org>
Build-Depends: autoconf, autotools-dev, debhelper (>= 5), libnet1-dev, libpcap0.8-dev
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/t/tcptraceroute
Files: c679b83cf92345ec835bc6ad94fa9996 645 tcptraceroute_1.5beta6-2.1.dsc
0200707ad81b88c31439820ae9bc5102 141555 tcptraceroute_1.5beta6.orig.tar.gz
70fc7825c454e03ffc759019f03a6cc8 18219 tcptraceroute_1.5beta6-2.1.diff.gz
Package: tcptraceroute
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 116
Maintainer: David Coe <davidc@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.5beta6-2.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libnet1 (>= 1.1.2-1), libpcap0.8 (>= 0.9.3-1)
Filename: pool/main/t/tcptraceroute/tcptraceroute_1.5beta6-2.1_i386.deb
Size: 31304
MD5sum: 0012b6c2dbd969090ddd9ac3f6bf8a0f
SHA1: 4c1dfdf8f10eec8b8c73085c180e2484c3ac1a73
SHA256: 0c413e953fdbab67d016672b9c671b002972c9e332c7c0745b2c1a0447a09c5e
Description: A traceroute implementation using TCP packets
The more traditional traceroute(8) sends out either UDP or ICMP ECHO
packets with a TTL of one, and increments the TTL until the destination
has been reached. By printing the gateways that generate ICMP time
exceeded messages along the way, it is able to determine the path packets
are taking to reach the destination.
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The problem is that with the widespread use of firewalls on the modern
Internet, many of the packets that traceroute(8) sends out end up being
filtered, making it impossible to completely trace the path to the
destination. However, in many cases, these firewalls will permit inbound
TCP packets to specific ports that hosts sitting behind the firewall are
listening for connections on. By sending out TCP SYN packets instead of
UDP or ICMP ECHO packets, tcptraceroute is able to bypass the most common
firewall filters.
Tag: interface::commandline, protocol::ip, protocol::tcp, role::program, scope::utility
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