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gj

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 19

traceroute and /etc/protocols

Traceroute gave me the following error:

traceroute: unknown protocol icmp

After adding the /etc/protocols file to my system, the error disappeared and traceroute worked again.
Is this file installed by default ?
It didn't exist on my system.

Strange thing is: traceroute used to work in the past.
And I can't remember deleting this file myself.

Dogmeat

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From: Slovak Republic

Registered: 2009-02-24

Posts: 193

Re: traceroute and /etc/protocols

pacman -Qo /etc/protocols says
/etc/protocols is owned by iana-etc 2.30-1

I think iana-etc isn't included in the installation image but pacman -Syu should it install because it's dependency of filesystem.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: traceroute and /etc/protocols

allan@mugen ~ 
> pacman -Qo /etc/protocols 
/etc/protocols is owned by iana-etc 2.30-1

allan@mugen ~ 
> pacman -Qi iana-etc
Name           : iana-etc
Version        : 2.30-1
URL            : http://sethwklein.net/iana-etc
Licenses       : custom
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : None
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : filesystem

It should be on your system...

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gj

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Registered: 2010-11-07

Posts: 19

Re: traceroute and /etc/protocols

pacman -Ss iana-etc shows
core/iana-etc 2.30-1 [installed]
    /etc/protocols and /etc/services provided by IANA

The package seems to be installed on my system but  /etc/services doesn't exist either.

Weird...

I did a pacman -S iana-etc  and both files are now installed.

Last edited by gj (2010-12-22 22:44:45)