Bug 31052

Summary: Traceroute needs update
Product: Base System Reporter: Chris Beer <etherite>
Component: binAssignee: Bill Fenner <fenner>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Chris Beer 2001-10-05 06:00:05 UTC 
Traceroute is currently using v1.3.2 (written in 1996)
Current version on ee.lbl.gov is 1.4a12 (released Dec 2000 (currently in use on most current Linux distros)
There have been many additions made to traceroute since then, including additional
support for FreeBSD. Suggest that it be updated to the more recent version in the 
next revision, unless there is a pressing reason not to.

Fix: 

incorporate traceroute update from ee.lbl.gov into FreeBSD.
How-To-Repeat: Run traceroute
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway 2001-10-05 06:48:35 UTC 
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 09:53:27PM -0700, Chris Beer wrote:

> >Description:
> Traceroute is currently using v1.3.2 (written in 1996)
> Current version on ee.lbl.gov is 1.4a12 (released Dec 2000 (currently in use on most current Linux distros)
> There have been many additions made to traceroute since then, including additional
> support for FreeBSD. Suggest that it be updated to the more recent version in the 
> next revision, unless there is a pressing reason not to. 


1.4 alpha 12 by definition isn't release-quality.  If it was release
quality, they would call it 1.4.

Kris
Comment 2 Bill Fenner 2001-10-05 20:11:12 UTC 
Unfortunately, much LBL software is in eternal alpha.
Fortunately, LBL's alpha quality code is often better
than others' release quality code...

  Bill
Comment 3 Will Andrews 2001-10-11 14:19:26 UTC 
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:50:02PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>  1.4 alpha 12 by definition isn't release-quality.  If it was release
>  quality, they would call it 1.4.

Not a reason not to try it in -CURRENT.
Besides, naming conventions are always arbitrary.

-- 
wca
Comment 4 Bill Fenner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-10-14 18:56:22 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->fenner

I am mr. contrib_traceroute
Comment 5 Bill Fenner freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-28 18:15:52 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

traceroute 1.4a12 imported into -CURRENT.
Comment 6 Bill Fenner 2002-12-13 22:54:35 UTC 
BTW, I never merged this into 4.x because 1.4a12 had some regressions 
from the traceroute in 4.x (source address selection with -g, checksum 
with -g, allows using a source address that doesn't belong to this 
system, possibly others) and I never finished testing / coding fixes.
Comment 7 Craig Rodrigues freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-09-11 17:38:14 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

traceroute 1.4a12 is in FreeBSD 5.x and higher.