Is there a way to find the TTL start value of the pinged server

Solution 1:

TTL time has to do with traversing from point A to point B on the internet. No one has a TTL, and the route taken between the points may vary, even on each ping (although rarely).

Read about ping, where TTL is defined as the number of network hops that the probe traversed.

However, the little twist here is that the TTL number that you see is set to its initial value by the destination device, then is decremented by one for each hop that the return has taken.

The problem is that each device or operating system may have a different initial value.

Here an old table the someone has compiled: Initial TTL values. The TTL value that you receive may actually give you a hint about the responding device and/or OS.