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Subject: traceroutes default of 30 Hops is too low
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>Number:         19598
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       traceroutes default of 30 Hops is too low
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    ru
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 30 02:20:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Jun 6 09:12:48 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jun 06 09:14:48 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Stefan `Sec` Zehl
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

FreeBSD ice 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #6: Wed Jun 21 00:58:17 CEST 2000     root@ice:/usr/export/src/sys/compile/ICE  i386

>Description:

traceroute defaults to at most 30 hops. I am beginning to see sites
wich are farther away than that.
I think it's about time to change the default to a higher number...

>How-To-Repeat:

Got to <http://tracy.dent.niigata-u.ac.jp:8000/~suzuki/tracert.html>
and traceroute to 194.246.250.222.

This route takes 37 hops to arrive.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 07:45:51 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
Either use the -m option, or bug the maintainers at 
<traceroute@ee.lbl.gov> if you still believe that 
the default should be raised. 

The latest 1.4a12 still has the default of 30 hops. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19598 
State-Changed-From-To: closed->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 08:02:25 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
After looking at OpenBSD changes, I feel that we should 
change the default to the value of net.inet.ip.ttl MIB. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru 
Responsible-Changed-By: ru 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 08:02:25 PDT 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I will fix that. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19598 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: ru 
State-Changed-When: Wed Jun 6 09:12:48 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
The default maximum TTL value is now determined at run-time, 
fetching the net.inet.ip.ttl sysctl(3) MIB variable. 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19598 
>Unformatted:
