Re: web related oddity

[OFriedrichs () SECURITY-FOCUS COM (Oliver Friedrichs)]

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> - What catches my eye is the TTL has changed dramatically
> from Feb 24 to
>   Feb 29.  Either the O/S of CCC.CCC.CCC.100 has changed, or
> there is initial
>   TTL trickery going on.

This is probably because the route the packets are taking has
changed.  Since the TTL is decremented for each hop, the changing of
routes can affect this - both local network and backbone network
changes.  Your not getting the initial TTL, your getting the TTL of
the packet after it has been routed over 20 routers (assuminig
initial TTL was 255).

Oliver Friedrichs
Product Marketing Manager,
securityfocus.com
(650) 655-2000 ext. 31

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