Nmap Development: Re: [PATCH] Report ICMP TTL Exceeded messages

[Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:22:36AM +0000, Brandon Enright wrote:
> The output looks something like:
>
> ICMP TTL Exceeded message when sending to X.Y.147.215, possible network loop, try increasing TTL with --ttl
Have you (or other people) actually seen many cases where increasing
the TTL with --ttl resolves the problem?  If so, we could increase the
default Nmap TTL.  But I figured it was high enough that TTL exceeded
notices are probably due to loops which would simply loop more with a
higher TTL.

Cheers,
-F

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