[ On Monday, May 20, 2002 at 18:16:06 (+0700), Robert Elz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: traceroute max ttl uplift 
>
> No.   Much better for traceroute to tell you that it can reach the
> destination in 47 hops, then you look at net.inet.ip.ttl and discover it
> set to 45, and say "ah".

Very good point.  I withdraw my suggestion that ping, traceroute, et al
use the current system TTL as their default TTL.

It would be nice though if ping at least, and maybe traceroute too,
printed a warning if the number of hops to the remote target appears to
be larger than the current value of the net.inet.ip.ttl sysctl....

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