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From: spurgeon@SIRIUS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Charles Spurgeon)
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Subject: Small TTL values evaporate in large networks
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Date: 25 May 89 13:24:54 GMT
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>	Was there any evidence that the hop that dropped the packet
>after its TTL expired informed the source of its action?
The folks who originally saw the problem reported ICMP messages, so
I guess the answer is ``yes.''

Running ``traceroute'' gave us a fairly good set of replies as well,
although a trace of the route to ``life.ai.mit.edu'' showed 15 hops to
the last gateway seen, but only 13 hops back.