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time to live (TTL)

The field used in a protocol (such as DNS or ICMP ) to indicate how many more network hops are allowed before the packet is dropped (discarded) (and, in terms of a TCP protocol as opposed to a UDP protocol) an error returned to the sender.

Permanent link time to live (TTL) - Creation date 2020-06-22


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