Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!lwa@mit-mrclean From: lwa@mit-mrclean (Larry Allen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Time to live values for IP networks. Message-ID: <8861@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 15:31:03 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8861 Posted: Sat Mar 2 15:31:03 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Mar-85 02:06:52 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 9 Sorry, Ron, but I have to disagree that you 'just pick a time to live value that you think is reasonable'. The Internet is growing every day; in my opinion choosing a value out of the air is just going to lead to hard-to-find bugs later. I'd strongly argue for always running with time-to-live = 255. I'm not sure, but I think the only time TTL needs to be decremented is when a packet passes through a gateway. -Larry Allen