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

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 17 June 2013, Kevin Wilson sent:
> 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.

Things do not *have* to respond to pings, so a ping can only test how it
responds to pings, rather than be a definitive test of being able to
reach something.

When you're accessible to the world, and every byte costs you money, you
may decide to disable all but the essential traffic.

> traceroute www.google.com gives immediately the list of nodes.

I seem to recall traceroute does, or can, use a different protocol.
Read the manuals.

> Could it be somehow due to not flushing firewalld rules ? (I don't
> know much about firewalld)

Unless you've made special rules, Fedora tends to allow this sort of
traffic.

I get a different IP responding to www.google.com, there are some
responses to pings, and to some of the hops along the route.

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