Why does traceroute timeout(*) if re-run in less than 3 seconds in RHEL?
Issue
- Running
traceroutethe first time works normally:
# traceroute 192.168.10.10
traceroute to 192.168.10.10 (192.168.10.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.10.10 (192.168.10.10) 0.118 ms 0.114 ms 0.110 ms
#
- Re-running the command immediately(in less than 3 seconds) returns "*":
# traceroute 192.168.10.10
traceroute to 192.168.10.10 (192.168.10.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 * * *
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * 192.168.10.10 (192.168.10.10) 0.095 ms 0.084 ms
- The Oracle RAC installations does this test during the setup. If the test fails, the set up won't start.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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