20 Jan
2016
20 Jan
'16
6:23 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. randy