ping -R on Fedora 18 d does not work (firewalld problem?)

[poma]

On 17.06.2013 08:06, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/17/13 13:18, Kevin Wilson wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I try:
>>  ping -R www.google.com
>>
>> I get:
>> PING www.google.com (173.194.113.112) 56(124) bytes of data.
>>
>>
>> but the list of nodes does not appear, and I wait for more than 5 minutes.
>>
>> traceroute www.google.com gives immediately the list of nodes.
>>
>> This is fedora 18, iptables  stopped (and flushed), firewalld stopped.
>>
>> Could it be somehow due to not flushing firewalld rules ? (I don't
>> know much about firewalld)
> 
>       -R     ping  only.   Record  route.  Includes the RECORD_ROUTE option in
>               the ECHO_REQUEST packet and displays the route buffer on returned
>               packets.   Note  that the IP header is only large enough for nine
>               such routes.  Many hosts ignore or discard this option.
> 
> 
> I think "Many" should be replaced with "Most".  :-)

It's almost impossible to determine.
In one's lifetime. :)
However, I found something interesting regarding 'iptables'.
Guess what. Procedure which includes 'iptables-save/restore' as
described in "Making changes persistent"[1] doesn't work.
Hippity hop hooray!


poma


[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_edit_iptables_rules#Making_changes_persistent