###
# Copyright 1998, 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
# Copyright 2000-2005 Daniel Hagerty
#
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###
# File: traceroute.pm
# Author: Daniel Hagerty, hag@ai.mit.edu
# Date: Tue Mar 17 13:44:00 1998
# Description: Perl traceroute module for performing traceroute(1)
# functionality.
# Currently attempts to parse the output of the system traceroute command,
# which it expects will behave like the standard LBL traceroute program.
# If it doesn't, (Windows, HPUX come to mind) you lose.
#
# Could eventually be broken into several classes that know how to
# deal with various traceroutes; could attempt to auto-recognize the
# particular traceroute and parse it.
#
# Has a couple of random useful hooks for child classes to override.
package Net::Traceroute;
use strict;
no strict qw(subs);
#require 5.xxx; # We'll probably need this
use vars qw(@EXPORT $VERSION @ISA);
use Exporter;
use IO::Pipe;
use IO::Select;
use Socket;
use Symbol qw(qualify_to_ref);
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
use Errno qw(EAGAIN EINTR);
use Data::Dumper; # Debugging
$VERSION = "1.14"; # Version number is only incremented by
# hand.
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw(
TRACEROUTE_OK
TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT
TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN
TRACEROUTE_BSDBUG
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_HOST
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_SRCFAIL
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_ADDR
TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PORT
TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_QUENCH
TRACEROUTE_INTERRUPTED
);
###
## Exported functions.
# Perl's facist mode gets very grumbly if a few things aren't declared
# first.
sub TRACEROUTE_OK { 0 }
sub TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT { 1 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN { 2 }
sub TRACEROUTE_BSDBUG { 3 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET { 4 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_HOST { 5 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO { 6 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG { 7 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_SRCFAIL { 8 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB { 9 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_ADDR { 10 }
sub TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PORT { 11 }
sub TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_QUENCH { 12 }
sub TRACEROUTE_INTERRUPTED { 13 }
## Internal data used throughout the module
# Instance variables that are nothing special, and have an obvious
# corresponding accessor/mutator method.
my @public_instance_vars =
qw(
base_port
debug
host
max_ttl
packetlen
queries
query_timeout
source_address
text
trace_program
timeout
no_fragment
use_icmp
use_tcp
tos
);
my @simple_instance_vars = (
qw(
pathmtu
stat
),
@public_instance_vars,
);
# Field offsets for query info array
use constant query_stat_offset => 0;
use constant query_host_offset => 1;
use constant query_time_offset => 2;
# We keep track of the most recently seen chunk of the traceroute for
# parsing purposes.
use constant token_addr => 0;
use constant token_time => 1;
use constant token_flag => 2;
# Map !<Mumble> notation traceroute uses for various icmp packet types
# it may receive.
my %icmp_map_v4 = (
N => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET,
H => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_HOST,
P => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO,
F => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG,
S => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_SRCFAIL,
X => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB,
'!' => TRACEROUTE_BSDBUG,
);
my %icmp_map_v6 = (
N => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET,
P => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB,
# Unlikely to be seen in the wild:
# S => unreach notneighbor,
A => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_ADDR,
'!' => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PORT,
);
# Entries Q, I, T, and U have never been tested. For the most part, I
# don't know how to produce them or they're so rare I couldn't be
# bothered.
my %icmp_map_cisco = (
A => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB,
Q => TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_QUENCH,
I => TRACEROUTE_INTERRUPTED,
U => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PORT,
H => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_HOST,
N => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET,
P => TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO,
T => TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT,
# Handled elsehow:
# ? => unknown packet type,
);
###
# Public methods
# Constructor
sub new ($;%) {
my $self = shift;
my $type = ref($self) || $self;
my %arg = @_;
# We implement a goofy UI so that all programmers can use
# Net::Traceroute as a constructor for all types of object.
if(exists($arg{backend})) {
my $backend = $arg{backend};
if($backend ne "Parser") {
my $module = "Net::Traceroute::$backend";
eval "require $module";
# Ignore error on the possibility that they just defined
# the module at runtime, rather than an actual module in
# the filesystem.
my $newref = qualify_to_ref("new", $module);
my $newcode = *{$newref}{CODE};
if(!defined($newcode)) {
die "Backend implementation $backend has no new";
}
return(&{$newcode}($module, @_));
}
}
if(!ref($self)) {
$self = bless {}, $type;
}
$self->init(%arg);
$self;
}
sub init {
my $self = shift;
my %arg = @_;
# Take our constructer arguments and initialize the attributes with
# them.
my $var;
foreach $var (@public_instance_vars) {
if(defined($arg{$var})) {
$self->$var($arg{$var});
}
}
# Initialize debug if it isn't already.
$self->debug(0) if(!defined($self->debug));
$self->trace_program("traceroute") if(!defined($self->trace_program));
$self->debug_print(1, "Running in debug mode\n");
# Initialize status
$self->stat(TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN);
if(defined($self->host)) {
$self->traceroute;
} elsif(defined($self->text)) {
$self->_parse($self->text)
}
$self->debug_print(9, Dumper($self));
}
sub clone ($;%) {
my $self = shift;
my $type = ref($self);
my %arg = @_;
die "Can't clone a non-object!" unless($type);
my $clone = bless {}, $type;
# Does a shallow copy of the hash key/values to the new hash.
if(ref($self)) {
my($key, $val);
while(($key, $val) = each %{$self}) {
$clone->{$key} = $val;
}
}
# Take our constructer arguments and initialize the attributes with
# them.
my $var;
foreach $var (@public_instance_vars) {
if(defined($arg{$var})) {
$clone->$var($arg{$var});
}
}
# Initialize status
$clone->stat(TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN);
if(defined($clone->host)) {
$clone->traceroute;
} elsif(defined($clone->text)) {
$clone->_parse($clone->text)
}
$clone->debug_print(9, Dumper($clone));
return($clone);
}
##
# Methods
# Do the actual work. Not really a published interface; completely
# useable from the constructor.
sub traceroute ($) {
my $self = shift;
my $host = $self->host();
$self->debug_print(1, "Performing traceroute\n");
die "No host provided!" unless $host;
# Sit in a select loop on the incoming text from traceroute,
# waiting for a timeout if we need to. Accumulate the text for
# parsing later in one fell swoop.
# Note time. Time::HiRes will give us floating point.
my $start_time;
my $end_time;
my $total_wait = $self->timeout();
my @this_wait;
if(defined($total_wait)) {
$start_time = time();
push(@this_wait, $total_wait);
$end_time = $start_time + $total_wait;
}
my $tr_pipe = $self->_make_pipe();
my $select = new IO::Select($tr_pipe);
$self->_zero_text_accumulator();
$self->_zero_hops();
my @ready;
out:
while( @ready = $select->can_read(@this_wait)) {
my $fh;
foreach $fh (@ready) {
my $buf;
my $len = $fh->sysread($buf, 2048);
# XXX Linux is fond of returning EAGAIN, which we'll need
# to check for here. Still true for sysread?
if(!defined($len)) {
my $errno = int($!);
next out if(($errno == EAGAIN) || ($errno == EINTR));
die "read error: $!";
}
last out if(!$len); # EOF
$self->text($self->text() . $buf);
}
# Adjust select timer if we need to.
if(defined($total_wait)) {
my $now = time();
last out if($now >= $end_time);
$this_wait[0] = $end_time - $now;
}
}
if(defined($total_wait)) {
my $now = time();
$self->stat(TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT) if($now >= $end_time);
# This is exceedingly dubious. Crawl into IO::Pipe::End's
# innards, and nuke the pid connected to our pipe. Otherwise,
# close will call waitpid, which we certainly don't wait for a
# timeout.
delete ${*$tr_pipe}{io_pipe_pid};
}
$tr_pipe->close();
my $accum = $self->text();
die "No output from traceroute. Exec failure?" if($accum eq "");
# Do the grunt parsing work
$self->_parse($accum);
# XXX are you really sure you want to do it like this??
if($self->stat() != TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT) {
$self->stat(TRACEROUTE_OK);
}
$self;
}
sub parse {
my $self = shift;
$self->_parse($self->text());
}
sub argv {
my $self = shift;
my @tr_args;
push(@tr_args, $self->trace_program());
push(@tr_args, $self->_tr_cmd_args());
push(@tr_args, $self->host());
my @plen = ($self->packetlen) || (); # Sigh.
push(@tr_args, @plen);
return(@tr_args);
}
##
# Hop and query functions
sub hops ($) {
my $self = shift;
my $hop_ary = $self->{"hops"};
return() unless $hop_ary;
return(int(@{$hop_ary}));
}
sub hop_queries ($$) {
my $self = shift;
my $hop = (shift) - 1;
$self->{"hops"} && $self->{"hops"}->[$hop] &&
int(@{$self->{"hops"}->[$hop]});
}
sub found ($) {
my $self = shift;
my $hops = $self->hops();
if($hops) {
my $last_hop = $self->hop_query_host($hops, 0);
my $stat = $self->hop_query_stat($hops, 0);
# Is this the correct thing to be doing? This gap in
# semantics missed me, and wasn't caught until post 1.5 It
# would be a good to audit the semantics here. It's possible
# that a prior version change broke this.
# Getting good regression tests would be nice, but traceroute
# is an annoying thing to do regression on -- you usually
# don't have enough control over the network. If I was good,
# I would be collecting my bug reports, and saving the
# traceroute output produced there.
return(undef) if(!defined($last_hop));
# Ugh, what to do here?
# In IPv4, a host may send the port-unreachable ICMP from an
# address other than the one we sent to. (and in fact, I use
# this feature quite a bit to map out networks)
# IIRC, IPv6 mandates that the unreachable comes from the address we
# sent to, so we don't have this problem.
# This assumption will that any last hop answer that wasn't an
# error may bite us.
if(
(($stat == TRACEROUTE_OK) || ($stat == TRACEROUTE_BSDBUG) ||
($stat == TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO))) {
return(1);
}
}
return(undef);
}
sub hop_query_stat ($$) {
_query_accessor_common(@_,query_stat_offset);
}
sub hop_query_host ($$) {
_query_accessor_common(@_,query_host_offset);
}
sub hop_query_time ($$) {
_query_accessor_common(@_,query_time_offset);
}
##
# Accesssor/mutators for ordinary instance variables. (Read/Write)
# We generate these.
foreach my $name (@simple_instance_vars) {
my $sym = qualify_to_ref($name);
my $code = sub {
my $self = shift;
my $old = $self->{$name};
$self->{$name} = $_[0] if @_;
return $old;
};
*{$sym} = $code;
}
###
# Various internal methods
# Many of these would be useful to override in a derived class.
# Build and return the pipe that talks to our child traceroute.
sub _make_pipe ($) {
my $self = shift;
$self->debug_print(9, Dumper($self));
# XXX we probably shouldn't throw stderr away.
open(my $savestderr, ">&", STDERR);
open(STDERR, ">", "/dev/null");
my $pipe = new IO::Pipe;
# IO::Pipe is very unhelpful about error catching. It calls die
# in the child program, but returns a reasonable looking object in
# the parent. This is really a standard unix fork/exec issue, but
# the library doesn't help us.
my $result = $pipe->reader($self->argv());
open(STDERR, ">&", $savestderr);
close($savestderr);
# Long standing bug; the pipe needs to be marked non blocking.
$result->blocking(0);
$result;
}
# Map some instance variables to command line arguments that take
# arguments.
my %cmdline_valuemap =
( "base_port" => "-p",
"max_ttl" => "-m",
"queries" => "-q",
"query_timeout" => "-w",
"source_address" => "-s",
"tos" => "-t",
);
# Map more instance variables to command line arguments that are
# flags.
my %cmdline_flagmap =
( "no_fragment" => "-F",
"use_icmp" => "-I",
"use_tcp" => "-T"
);
# Build a list of command line arguments
sub _tr_cmd_args ($) {
my $self = shift;
my @result;
push(@result, "-n");
my($key, $flag);
while(($key, $flag) = each %cmdline_flagmap) {
push(@result, $flag) if($self->$key());;
}
while(($key, $flag) = each %cmdline_valuemap) {
my $val = $self->$key();
if(defined $val) {
push(@result, $flag, $val);
}
}
@result;
}
# Do the grunt work of parsing the output.
sub _parse ($$) {
my $self = shift;
my $tr_output = shift;
my $hopno;
my $query;
my $icmp_map;
my $icmp_map_re;
my $set_icmp_map = sub {
$icmp_map = shift if(!defined($icmp_map));;
$icmp_map_re = join("", keys(%{$icmp_map}));
};
# This is a crufty hand coded parser that does its job well
# enough. The approach of regular expressions without state is
# far from perfect, but it gets the job done.
line:
foreach $_ (split(/\n/, $tr_output)) {
# Some traceroutes appear to print informational line to stdout,
# and we don't care.
/^traceroute to / && next;
# AIX 5L has to be different.
/^trying to get / && next;
/^source should be / && next;
# NetBSD's traceroute emits info about path MTU discovery if
# you want, don't know who else does this.
/^message too big, trying new MTU = (\d+)/ && do {
$self->pathmtu($1);
next;
};
# For now, discard MPLS label stack information emitted by
# some vendor's traceroutes. Once I'm sure I'm sure I
# understand the semantics offered by both the underlying MPLS
# and whatever crazy limits the MPLS patch has, I can think
# about an interface. My reading of the code is that you will
# get the label stack of the last query. If this isn't
# representative of all of the queries, it sucks to be you.
# You can still get what you need, but it would be nice if the
# tool didn't throw information away...
# possibilities.
/^\s+MPLS Label=(\d+) CoS=(\d) TTL=(\d+) S=(\d+)/ && next;
# Cisco chatter. We use the "Type escape sequence..." line to
# set the icmp_map to cisco.
/^Type escape sequence to abort/ && do {
&{$set_icmp_map}(\%icmp_map_cisco);
next;
};
/^Tracing the route to/ && next;
# XXX there's one like this in the query loop, too.
# Can we eliminate one?
/^$/ && next;
# Cisco marks ECMP paths very differently from LBL. LBL
# outputs the changing addresses in one line, whereas cisco
# will output a line with no hop count.
# XXX we probably need to possibly match DNS in here.
s/^\s{4}(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+ )/$1/ && goto query;
s/^\s{4}([0-9a-fA-F:]*:[0-9a-fA-F]*(?:\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?)/$1/ &&
goto query;
# Each line starts with the hopno (space padded to two characters)
# and a space.
s/^ ?([0-9 ][0-9]) // || die "Can't find hop number in output: $_";
$hopno = $1 + 0;
$query = 1;
my $addr;
my $time;
my $last_token;
query:
while($_) {
# dns name and address; rewrite as just an address
# XXX should keep dns name
s/^[-A-Za-z0-9.]+ \((\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\)/$1/;
s/^[-A-Za-z0-9.]+ \(([0-9a-fA-F:]*:[0-9a-fA-F]*(?:\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?)\)/$1/;
# ip address of a response
s/^ ?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)// && do {
$last_token = token_addr;
$addr = $1;
&{$set_icmp_map}(\%icmp_map_v4);
next query;
};
# ipv6 address of a response. This regexp is sleazy.
s/^ ?([0-9a-fA-F:]*:[0-9a-fA-F]*(?:\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)?)// && do {
$last_token = token_addr;
$addr = $1;
&{$set_icmp_map}(\%icmp_map_v6);
next query;
};
# Redhat FC5 traceroute does this; it's redundant.
s/^ \((\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\)// && next query;
# round trip time of query
s/^ ? ?([0-9.]+) ms(?:ec)?// && do {
$last_token = token_time;
$time = $1 + 0;
$self->_add_hop_query($hopno, $query,
TRACEROUTE_OK, $addr, $time);
$query++;
next query;
};
# query timed out
s/^ +\*// && do {
$last_token = token_time;
$self->_add_hop_query($hopno, $query,
TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT,
inet_ntoa(INADDR_NONE), 0);
$query++;
next query;
};
# extra information from the probe (random ICMP info
# and such).
# There was a bug in this regexp prior to 1.09; reorder
# the clauses and everything gets better.
# Note that this is actually a very subtle DWIM on perl's
# part: in "pure" regular expression theory, order of
# expression doesn't matter; the resultant DFA has no
# order concept. Without perl DWIMing on our regexp, we'd
# write the regexp and code to perform a token lookahead:
# the transitions after ! would be < for digits, the keys
# of icmp map, and finally whitespace or end of string
# indicate a lone "!".
s/^ (!<\d+>|\?|![$icmp_map_re]?) ?// && do {
my $flag = $1;
# If the prior token was a time sample, it incremented
# query. Undo that locally.
my $lquery = $query;
$lquery-- if(defined($last_token) && $last_token == token_time);
my $stat;
if($flag =~ /^!<\d>$/) {
$stat = TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN;
} elsif($flag =~ /^!$/) {
$stat = $icmp_map->{"!"};
} elsif($flag =~ /^!([$icmp_map_re])$/) {
my $icmp = $1;
# Shouldn't happen
die "Unable to parse traceroute output (flag $icmp)!"
unless(defined($icmp_map->{$icmp}));
$stat = $icmp_map->{$icmp};
} elsif($flag eq "?") {
# Cisco does this.
$stat = TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN;
} else {
die "unrecognized flag: $flag";
}
if(defined($last_token) && ($last_token == token_time)) {
$self->_change_hop_query_stat($hopno, $lquery, $stat);
} else {
$self->_add_hop_query($hopno, $lquery, $stat, $addr, 0);
$query++;
}
$last_token = token_flag;
next query;
};
# Nothing left, next line.
/^$/ && next line;
# Cisco ASN data.
# XXX we should keep this.
s/^ \[AS \d+\]// && next query;
s/ \[MPLS: Label \d+ Exp \d+\]// && next query;
s, \[MPLS: Labels \d+(?:/\d+)* Exp \d+\],, && next query;
# Some LBL derived traceroutes print ttl stuff
s/^ \(ttl ?= ?\d+!\)// && next query;
die "Unable to parse traceroute output: $_";
}
}
}
sub _zero_text_accumulator ($) {
my $self = shift;
my $elem = "text";
$self->{$elem} = "";
}
# Hop stuff
sub _zero_hops ($) {
my $self = shift;
delete $self->{"hops"};
}
sub _add_hop_query ($$$$$$) {
my $self = shift;
my $hop = (shift) - 1;
my $query = (shift) - 1;
my $stat = shift;
my $host = shift;
my $time = shift;
$self->{"hops"}->[$hop]->[$query] = [ $stat, $host, $time ];
}
sub _change_hop_query_stat ($$$$) {
my $self = shift;
# Zero base these
my $hop = (shift) - 1;
my $query = (shift) - 1;
my $stat = shift;
$self->{"hops"}->[$hop]->[$query]->[ query_stat_offset ] = $stat;
}
sub _query_accessor_common ($$$) {
my $self = shift;
# Zero base these
my $hop = (shift) - 1;
my $query = (shift) - 1;
my $which_one = shift;
# Deal with wildcard
if($query == -1) {
my $query_stat;
my $aref;
query:
foreach $aref (@{$self->{"hops"}->[$hop]}) {
$query_stat = $aref->[query_stat_offset];
$query_stat == TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT && do { next query };
$query_stat == TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN && do { next query };
do { return $aref->[$which_one] };
}
return undef;
} else {
$self->{"hops"}->[$hop]->[$query]->[$which_one];
}
}
sub debug_print ($$$;@) {
my $self = shift;
my $level = shift;
my $fmtstring = shift;
return unless $self->debug() >= $level;
my($package, $filename, $line, $subroutine,
$hasargs, $wantarray, $evaltext, $is_require) = caller(0);
my $caller_line = $line;
my $caller_name = $subroutine;
my $caller_file = $filename;
my $string = sprintf($fmtstring, @_);
my $caller = "${caller_file}:${caller_name}:${caller_line}";
print STDERR "$caller: $string";
}
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
Net::Traceroute - traceroute(1) functionality in perl
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Net::Traceroute;
$tr = Net::Traceroute->new(host => "life.ai.mit.edu");
if($tr->found) {
my $hops = $tr->hops;
if($hops > 1) {
print "Router was " .
$tr->hop_query_host($tr->hops - 1, 0) . "\n";
}
}
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module implements a parser for various traceroute
implementations. At present, it can parse most LBL traceroute
derivatives used on typical unixes, and the traceroute of cisco IOS.
Traceroutes known not to be supported include that of Microsoft
Windows and HP-UX.
This module has two basic modes of operation, one, where it will run
traceroute for you, and the other where you provide text from
previously runing traceroute to parse.
=head1 OVERVIEW
A new Net::Traceroute object must be created with the I<new> method.
Depending on exactly how the constructor is invoked, it may perform
some tracing and/or parsing actions immediately, or it may return a
"template" object that can be used to set parameters for several
subsequent traceroutes.
Methods are available for accessing information about a given
traceroute attempt. There are also methods that view/modify the
options that are passed to the object's constructor.
To trace a route, UDP packets are sent with a small TTL (time-to-live)
field in an attempt to get intervening routers to generate ICMP
TIME_EXCEEDED messages.
=head1 CONSTRUCTOR AND CLONING
$obj = Net::Traceroute->new([base_port => $base_port,]
[debug => $debuglvl,]
[max_ttl => $max_ttl,]
[host => $host,]
[text => $text,]
[queries => $queries,]
[query_timeout => $query_timeout,]
[timeout => $timeout,]
[source_address => $srcaddr,]
[tos => $tos,]
[packetlen => $packetlen,]
[trace_program => $program,]
[no_fragment => $nofrag,]
[use_icmp => $useicmp,]
[use_tcp => $usetcp,]
);
$frob = $obj->clone([options]);
This is the constructor for a new Net::Traceroute object. If given
C<host>, it will immediately perform the traceroute. If given C<text>,
it will parse that text as traceroute output.
Given an existing Net::Traceroute object $obj as a template, you can
call $obj->clone() with the usual constructor parameters. The same
rules apply about defining host; that is, traceroute will be run if it
is defined, or text will be parsed. You can always pass
C<host => undef, text => undef> to clone.
Possible options are:
B<host> - A host to traceroute to. If you don't set this, you get a
Traceroute object with no traceroute data in it. The module always
uses IP addresses internally and will attempt to lookup host names via
inet_aton.
B<text> - Output from a previously run traceroute. If set, and host
isn't, the given text will be parsed.
B<base_port> - Base port number to use for the UDP queries.
Traceroute assumes that nothing is listening to port C<base_port> to
C<base_port + (nhops - 1)>
where nhops is the number of hops required to reach the destination
address. Default is what the system traceroute uses (normally 33434).
C<Traceroute>'s C<-p> option.
B<debuglvl> - A number indicating how verbose debug information should
be. Please include debug=>9 output in bug reports.
B<max_ttl> - Maximum number of hops to try before giving up. Default
is what the system traceroute uses (normally 30). C<Traceroute>'s
C<-m> option.
B<queries> - Number of times to send a query for a given hop.
Defaults to whatever the system traceroute uses (3 for most
traceroutes). C<Traceroute>'s C<-q> option.
B<query_timeout> - How many seconds to wait for a response to each
query sent. Uses the system traceroute's default value of 5 if
unspecified. C<Traceroute>'s C<-w> option.
B<timeout> - Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for the traceroute to
complete. If not specified, the traceroute will not return until the
host has been reached, or traceroute counts to infinity (C<max_ttl> *
C<queries> * C<query_timeout>). Note that this option is implemented
by Net::Traceroute, not the underlying traceroute command.
B<source_address> - Select the source address that traceroute wil use.
B<tos> - Specify a ToS value for traceroute to use.
B<packetlen> - Length of packets to use. Traceroute tries to make the
IP packet exactly this long.
B<trace_program> - Name of the traceroute program. Defaults to traceroute.
You can pass traceroute6 to do IPv6 traceroutes.
B<no_fragment> - Set the IP don't fragment bit. Some traceroute
programs will perform path mtu discovery with this option.
B<use_icmp> - Request that traceroute perform probes with ICMP echo
packets, rather than UDP.
B<use_tcp> - Request that traceoute perform probes with TCP SYNs.
=head1 METHODS
=over 4
=item traceroute
Run system traceroute, and parse the results. Will fill in the rest
of the object for informational queries.
=item parse
Parse the previously provided C<text>, filling in the rest of the
object for queries.
=item argv
Returns a list of arguments that traceroute will be invoked with. For
debugging and/or overriding by subclasses.
=back
=head2 Controlling traceroute invocation
Each of these methods return the current value of the option specified
by the corresponding constructor option. They will set the object's
instance variable to the given value if one is provided.
Changing an instance variable will only affect newly performed
traceroutes. Setting a different value on a traceroute object that
has already performed a trace has no effect.
See the constructor documentation for information about methods that
aren't documented here.
=over 4
=item base_port([PORT])
=item max_ttl([PORT])
=item queries([QUERIES])
=item query_timeout([TIMEOUT])
=item host([HOST])
=item text([TEXT])
=item timeout([TIMEOUT])
=item source_address([SRC])
=item packetlen([LEN])
=item trace_program([PROGRAM])
=item no_fragment([PROGRAM])
=back
=head2 Obtaining information about a Trace
These methods return information about a traceroute that has already
been performed.
Any of the methods in this section that return a count of something or
want an I<N>th type count to identify something employ one based
counting.
=over 4
=item stat
Returns the status of a given traceroute object. One of
TRACEROUTE_OK, TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT, or TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN (each defined
as an integer). TRACEROUTE_OK will only be returned if the host was
actually reachable.
=item found
Attempt to return 1 if the host was found, undef otherwise. This test
is a poor heuristic, and will frequently give wrong answers.
=item pathmtu
If your traceroute supports MTU discovery, this method will return the
MTU in some circumstances. You must set no_fragment, and must use a
packetlen larger than the path mtu for this to be set.
=item hops
Returns the number of hops that it took to reach the host.
=item hop_queries(HOP)
Returns the number of queries that were sent for a given hop. This
should normally be the same for every query.
=item hop_query_stat(HOP, QUERY)
Return the status of the given HOP's QUERY. The return status can be
one of the following (each of these is actually an integer constant
function defined in Net::Traceroute's export list):
QUERY can be zero, in which case the first succesful query will be
returned.
=over 4
=item TRACEROUTE_OK
Reached the host, no problems.
=item TRACEROUTE_TIMEOUT
This query timed out.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNKNOWN
Your guess is as good as mine. Shouldn't happen too often.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NET
This hop returned an ICMP Network Unreachable.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_HOST
This hop returned an ICMP Host Unreachable.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PROTO
This hop returned an ICMP Protocol unreachable.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_PORT
Use in cisco and traceroute6 parsing. In cisco, "!U", in traceroute6,
a "!".
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_ADDR
This hop returned an ICMP6 address unreachable.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_NEEDFRAG
Indicates that you can't reach this host without fragmenting your
packet further. Shouldn't happen in regular use.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_SRCFAIL
A source routed packet was rejected for some reason. Shouldn't happen.
=item TRACEROUTE_UNREACH_FILTER_PROHIB
A firewall or similar device has decreed that your traffic is
disallowed by administrative action. Suspect sheer, raving paranoia.
=item TRACEROUTE_BSDBUG
The destination machine appears to exhibit the 4.[23]BSD time exceeded
bug.
=item TRACEROUTE_SOURCE_QUENCH
Some machine has generated an ICMP Source Quench message, asking you
to slow down.
=item TRACEROUTE_INTERRUPTED
"User interrupted test". Cisco's traceroute does this. Its unclear
how to produce it.
=back
=item hop_query_host(HOP, QUERY)
Return the dotted quad IP address of the host that responded to HOP's
QUERY.
QUERY can be zero, in which case the first succesful query will be
returned.
=item hop_query_time(HOP, QUERY)
Return the round trip time associated with the given HOP's query. If
your system's traceroute supports fractional second timing, so
will Net::Traceroute.
QUERY can be zero, in which case the first succesful query will be
returned.
=back
=head1 CLONING SUPPORT BEFORE 1.04
Net::Traceroute Versions before 1.04 used new to clone objects. This
has been deprecated in favor of the clone() method.
If you have code of the form:
my $template = Net::Traceroute->new();
my $tr = $template->new(host => "localhost");
You need to change the $template->new to $template->clone.
This behavior was changed because it interfered with subclassing.
=head1 BUGS
Net::Traceroute parses the output of the system traceroute command.
As such, it may not work on your system. Support for more traceroute
outputs (e.g. Windows, HPUX) could be done, although currently the
code assumes there is "One true traceroute".
The actual functionality of traceroute could also be implemented
natively in perl or linked in from a C library.
Versions prior to 1.04 had some interface issues for subclassing.
These issues have been addressed, but required a public interface
change. If you were relying on the behavior of new to clone existing
objects, your code needs to be fixed.
=head1 SEE ALSO
traceroute(1)
=head1 AUTHOR
Daniel Hagerty <hag@ai.mit.edu>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1998, 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Copyright 2000, 2001 Daniel Hagerty
Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software
and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the name of M.I.T. not be used in
advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
without specific, written prior permission. M.I.T. makes no
representations about the suitability of this software for any
purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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