This bug appears to be fixed in the mainline for gnome-nettools and should be in the next major release. The defect filed in the upstream project was marked as a dupe and the one it's duped against already has a patch, here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650611 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #650611 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650611 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-nettool in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359315 Title: Ping and traceroute fails on certain address Status in GNOME Nettool: Invalid Status in “gnome-nettool” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-nettool gnome-nettool version 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 hjelm@aspire-one:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch) Release: 9.04 If i ping my standard reference basun.sunet.se it fails. Another address www.expressen.se works fine. Using ping from command line works without a problem. hjelm@aspire-one:~$ ping basun.sunet.se PING basun.umdc.umu.se (130.239.8.41) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from basun.umdc.umu.se (130.239.8.41): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=35.6 ms 64 bytes from basun.umdc.umu.se (130.239.8.41): icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=35.6 ms 64 bytes from basun.umdc.umu.se (130.239.8.41): icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=34.8 ms Traceroute is the same. All other tabs works fine. On a sidenote, i tried the application report problem and it didn't work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-nettool/+bug/359315/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
