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Totally untrue. Network admins will often disable traceroute responses because security.

Edit: the less someone knows about your internal topology the better. Security through obscurity does work.




I was answering a question about what happens if it is disabled on the destination machine. The destination machine has no say over any other device along the route.


~~ Security through obscurity does work.

As a layer.


Windows disables ping by default for what I'm guessing is security.




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