Re: Internet diameter?

["Oliver O'Boyle" <oliver.oboyle () gmail com>]

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On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 00:32 William Herrin <bill () herrin us wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:58 PM Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > now, why does it matter?
>
> Good question! It matters because a little over two decades ago we had
> some angst as equipment configured to emit a TTL of 32 stopped being
> able to reach everybody. Today we have a lot of equipment configured
> to emit a TTL of 64. It's the default in Linux, for example. Are we
> getting close to the limit where that will cause problems? How close?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
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