At 9:14 PM -0800 2002/12/13, Jimi Thompson wrote:
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 mo
oned 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
oned 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
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
