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From: whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: sendmail hop count too low?
Message-ID: <2373@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 13:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 13:01:27 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 06:33:46 EDT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Increasingly often I've seen mail returned because sendmail's hop count
was exceeded by a valid sequence of hops.  As distributed on 4.3, the
hop count (MAXHOP in conf.h) is 17 and I've seen a few sendmails that
have a hop count of 15.  Unfortunately, this isn't enough -- some Internet
mail endpoints are more than 17 hops apart.  I don't know that there's
any solution for this other than to raise the hop count (which is non-trivial
for binary-only sites).