[107224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Revealed: The Internet's well known BGP behavior
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Thu Aug 28 00:20:44 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:20:12 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
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John Lee wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> The traceroute utility that I used gave me a list of hops that the
> packet I was interested in transited and a time when it transited the
> hop. When the TTL was reached it would terminate the listing.
>
But if I can control your traffic I could change everything, couldn't I?
I mean, with the ability to inject whatever I wanted, I could spoof
traceroute, yes? I could filter for that traffic and return whatever I
wanted.
I could manufacture a series of packets showing that NYC and London were
only 10ms apart in such a case.
--Patrick
