On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:14:06PM -0800, Jimi Thompson wrote:
>
>
> This is an issue that we recently ran into at work and I wanted to mention
> this since 5.0 isn't released yet. I don't know if FreeBSD has addressed
> this or not but thought it should be mentioned just in case. We've
> discovered that in many *nix OS's the TCP stack sets the default TTL for
> packets to 30. Apparently, IBM (AIX) had not and our research showed that
> most of the other *nix OS's hadn't either.
>
> With the increasing complexity of the internet, this is often a problem for
> those who have large internal networks and/or live in Australia. 30 hops
> often isn't enough to make to the core DNS. It probably ought to be
> extended to something more realistic. The other numbers that I've seen used
> 64, 128, and 256.
I'm not completely sure but I believe the default TTL on 5.0 is 64. I've
briefly tested this by pinging myself and watching the output, but if
there are any special cases for that then I could very well be wrong.
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-- Henry Spencer
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