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authorKartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org>2013-05-30 12:05:37 +0530
committerDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>2013-05-30 09:56:55 +0200
commite146460e755773534ac13a9fa88e1d963fcee4cc (patch)
treeeb7aeb1837b93635fdda66df7a74118936d3a67e /astraceroute.8
parent7bac55be33621dc5a382c8bd518d8120098c6cde (diff)
man: manpages hyphen and spelling mistakes
Some fixes all over, part 1. Signed-off-by: Kartik Mistry <kartik@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/astraceroute.8 b/astraceroute.8
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--- a/astraceroute.8
+++ b/astraceroute.8
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ tool might be a good start for further in-depth analysis of such systems.
.PP
.SS -H <host>, --host <host>
Hostname or IPv4 or IPv6 address of the remote host where the AS route should
-be traced to. In case of an IPv6 address or host, option ``-6'' must be
+be traced to. In case of an IPv6 address or host, option ``\-6'' must be
used. IPv4 is the default.
.PP
.SS -p <port>, --port <port>
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ argument.
.PP
.SS -n, --numeric
Tells astraceroute to not perform reverse DNS lookup for hop replies. The
-reverse option is ``-N''.
+reverse option is ``\-N''.
.PP
.SS -u, --update
The built-in geo-database update mechanism will be invoked to get Maxmind's
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Also show latitude and longtitude of hops.
.PP
.SS -N, --dns
Tells astraceroute to perform reverse DNS lookup for hop replies. The
-reverse option is ``-n''.
+reverse option is ``\-n''.
.PP
.SS -S, --syn
Use TCP's SYN flag for the request.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ http://bgp.he.net/AS<number>.
The geographical locations are estimated with the help of Maxmind's GeoIP
database and can or cannot deviate from the actual real physical location.
What one can do to decrease a possible error rate is to update the database
-regularly e.g. with astraceroute's --update option.
+regularly e.g. with astraceroute's \-\-update option.
.PP
At some point in time, we need a similar approach to gather more reliable path
information such as in paris-traceroute.