[367] in linux-security and linux-alert archive
Re: source routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Sep 18 11:06:06 1995
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 14:00:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.chem.ufl.edu>
To: Linas Vepstas <linas@teleportal.com>
cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509161957.OAA06873@teleportal.com>
On Sat, 16 Sep 1995, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Finally -- the route taken appears to be very odd.
> I live in Austin, Texas, yet here is part of the
> packets path
>
> So it would seem my packets left austin, went to houston,
> bounced around the country for a while, and
> finally came back to austin via houston. (Is that
> why my internet provider charges those fees?)
That's the way the internet works. If I do a traceroute from a
commercial provider in town to my system on the UF campus (a mere 5 miles
or so by car) the packets go from the commercial provider to Miami,
Virginia, Washington (DC I assume), one of the Carolinas, and Georgia,
before finally coming back to Gainesvill, FL. And thats on a good day
when there are no router outages. On a bad day, the packets bounce
through Texas before coming back.
Speaking of source routes though, is there any reason uu.net's news
server would be trying to send source routed packets to a news server it
feeds?
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