20 Jan
2016
20 Jan
'16
7:38 p.m.
We could assert that the TTL is an indication of distance traveled.
you might hypothesize it. but the wide variance in per-hop rtt would seem to belie that.
Maybe one should record the TTL and Address Family of all packets received from the internet ('inbound') at the next NANOG or IETF?
we have large bodies of traceroute and ping results in various stores, mlab, atlas, mawi, ... it is the analysis to test your original hypothesis which baffles me.
I'm not sure if milions traceroutes to all kinds of places are a good dataset to begin with.
all depends on what the actual means by which you intend to test your hypothesis, which you have yet to reveal. all i have heard so far is ttl, which we know is no measure of distance. randy