New on RIPE Labs: When Traceroutes Lie - How TTL Jumps Can Give Us a False Impression of the Internet’s Topology
3 Sep
2026
3 Sep
'26
2:18 p.m.
Dear colleagues, Sebastian Kappes and colleagues look at how routers that rewrite TTL values can cause traceroute to miss parts of a path and give a misleading picture of how networks are interconnected: https://labs.ripe.net/author/shk/when-traceroutes-lie-how-ttl-jumps-can-give... Comments and feedback very welcome as always! Kind regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC
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