Need help troubleshooting traceroute on Unix

Question

I have a Traceroute Python program for a Unix system that displays the path that packets take to go from the local machine to the destination, i.e. a sequence of routers through which packets pass. The problem is that I get an output that displays:

traceroute to yahoo.co.in (68.180.206.184), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

 1  * * *
 2  * * *
 3  * * *
 4  * * *
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
 .
 .
 .
 30  * * *

I have a DSL connection. The program works great with the Windows command line (cmd.exe). What is the exact reason for the above conclusion?

The code is as follows:

#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
def main(dest_name):
    dest_addr = socket.gethostbyname(dest_name)
    port = 33434
    max_hops = 30
    icmp = socket.getprotobyname('icmp')
    udp = socket.getprotobyname('udp')
    ttl = 1
    while True:
        recv_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_RAW, icmp)
        send_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, udp)
        send_socket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_IP, socket.IP_TTL, ttl)
        recv_socket.bind(("", port))
        send_socket.sendto("", (dest_name, port))
        curr_addr = None
        curr_name = None
        try:
            _, curr_addr = recv_socket.recvfrom(512)
            curr_addr = curr_addr[0]
            try:
                curr_name = socket.gethostbyaddr(curr_addr)[0]
            except socket.error:
                curr_name = curr_addr
        except socket.error:
            pass
        finally:
            send_socket.close()
            recv_socket.close()
        if curr_addr is not None:
            curr_host = "%s (%s)" % (curr_name, curr_addr)
        else:
            curr_host = "*"
        print "%d\t%s" % (ttl, curr_host)
        ttl += 1
        if curr_addr == dest_addr or ttl > max_hops:
            break
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main('yahoo.co.in')**

Answer 1

traceroute / tracert operate differently on Linux and Windows.

Linux UDP TTL ICMP. Windows - ICMP ICMP.

Python, UDP-.

Unix- traceroute User Datagram Protocol (UDP) 33434 33534. traceroute ICMP-- ( 8) Windows tracert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceroute