Re: LLMNR and Rendezvous TTL disagreement, a modest proposal

[Andras Salamon <andras@dns.net>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:09:02PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 04:03 am, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > ...that we give Apple's solution the nod based simply on operational
> > experience with a solution that has already been randomly chosen.
> I suggest that we make it "MUST (or SHOULD) send at 255, MAY bother to check" 
> as the path to least gratuitous breakage.

I support "MUST send with TTL=255, MAY reject if TTL<>255 on receipt",
possibly with a paragraph emphasizing that routers SHOULD discard such
packets if TTL<>255 (though this is perhaps broadening the ambit of the
document too far).

-- Andras Salamon                   andras@dns.net

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