Douglas Adams and Deep Thought was wrong, 42 is not the answer #490
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It might come as a surprise but some cross-region connections between AWS us-east-1 and AWS us-west-2 are currently routing through more than 42 hops. I might be wrong but if we can set the IP4 TTL to any non-default number 63 might be a better choice to get us close to the Linux default of 64?