Bug 19598

Summary:	traceroutes default of 30 Hops is too low
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	sec
Component:	bin	Assignee:	ru <ru>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.0-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description sec 2000-06-30 10:20:01 UTC

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.

Comment 1 ru freebsd_committer

2001-06-06 15:45:51 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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.

Comment 2 ru freebsd_committer

2001-06-06 16:02:25 UTC

State Changed
From-To: closed->analyzed

After looking at OpenBSD changes, I feel that we should 
change the default to the value of net.inet.ip.ttl MIB.

Comment 3 ru freebsd_committer

2001-06-06 16:02:25 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru

I will fix that.

Comment 4 ru freebsd_committer

2001-06-06 17:12:48 UTC

State Changed
From-To: analyzed->closed

The default maximum TTL value is now determined at run-time, 
fetching the net.inet.ip.ttl sysctl(3) MIB variable.