Date:        Mon, 20 May 2002 22:07:58 +1000 (EST)
    From:        Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
    Message-ID:  <200205201207.WAA23726@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>

  | Well...hmmm...what serves most of the world's web pages ?

Once upon a time, it used to be *BSD of some variety.   No idea these days.

  | Well, some points of reference:
  | Solaris (2.5.1+), HP-UX (11+) both ship with a default TTL of 255;
  | Windows 2000 has a default ttl of 128;
  | Linux has used 255 since at least 2.2.

Those being broken doesn't mean that NetBSD should be as well.
I understand why a vendor would do that .. it means not having to explain
to the clueless masses why they can't get to some particular random sites
when they can get to others.   I think NetBSD can do better than that.

  | I'm tending towards using 64 in traceroute and maybe bump the kernel to 128.

For traceroute, fine - or even more than 64 perhaps.

There's no current reason to increase the kernel limit - 64 is still way
more than the diameter of the worst parts of the net (which probably runs
to about 40, and increases very very slowly).

kre