Re: How to increase the MAX hop count

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 01:10:51PM -0700,
  David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> He's right.  If you do a traceroute to just about anything, you'll see
> that 25 hops is ample.  When it takes more than 25 hops, it's getting
> lost.

The kind of hops counted by traceroute aren't the ones that show up
in received headers.

Hop counts usually don't go over 20 unless a message gets resent with
the original received headers included. This happens regularly on some mailing
lists.