mtr issues

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Peter Hindrichs wrote:

> Good Day,
>
> I have been using "mtr" to check the network signal from my wireless
> ISP, and it has been working fine until the other day when I updated
> my system to 10.5.3
>
> I did an uninstall of mtr and reinstalled it, with no change here is
> what I get when I try "mtr ispnet.ca"
>
> Freedom:~ peterhin$ mtr ispnet.ca
> nodename nor servname provided, or not known: Undefined error: 0
> Freedom:~ peterhin$
>
>
> Now if I do a "ping"  or a "traceroute" of the same or any other
> address it works fine.
>
> My question then is this a compatibility issue with 10.5.3 or some
> other issue.
>

Which version of mtr, 0.72 or 0.73?  If 0.72, try upgrading it, as it  
was just updated [1] and one note mentions a patch to getaddrinfo()  
which could definitely be related to the problem you're seeing.

Bryan

[1] - <http://trac.macports.org/changeset/37346>