Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> writes:
> It would seem that the Internet's diameter has increased to a point where
> traceroute no longer makes it from .au to cvs.netbsd.org.  This seems to
> indicate, to me, that we need to up its default maxttl in order for it to
> be useful, by default.  I'd like to change the default maxttl from 30 to
> 64 (this matches the kernel default ttl too).

Seems like a fine idea.

> If I had time to hack on it, I might even go so far as to make
> it use net.inet.ip.ttl by default - it sort of makes sense for traceroute
> to be aligned with the kernel.

That makes some sense too.

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