Short-circuited traceroutes on FIOS

Valdis Kl=?utf-8?Q?=c4=93?=tnieks valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Wed Dec 11 23:47:45 UTC 2019


On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:26:09 +0200, Saku Ytti said:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 19:14, Rob Foehl <rwf at loonybin.net> wrote:
>
> > Support claims that it was a mistake, but it's also been 15+ months and
> > it's pretty deliberate behavior.  Draw your own conclusions...
>
> TTL decrement issues are fairly common across multiple vendors and hw,
> can be sw can be hw limit

Yes, but you need to screw up gloriously on the decrement if you think that
"I decremented and it's zero now" means "therefor it must have been addressed
to me, so I'll send an ECHO REPLY instead of TTL EXCEEDED".
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