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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Thu Aug 22 01:51:17 1996

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 15:37:59 +1000
From: Geoff Huston <gih@aarnet.edu.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu

Vadim writes,

>On itself, LSRR is a godsend to hackers (i can think of about
>a dozen of very nasty attacks using general LSRR).  The only
>useful application for it is traceroute.
>
>Why don't router vendors provide an option to turn it
>off for everything but ICMP ECHO?

Personally I find this an excellent suggestion.

g

 

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