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Re: rfc1918 ignorant

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Wed Jul 23 14:58:57 2003

To: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>,
	David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, "" <variable@ednet.co.uk>,
	"" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Message from Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com> 
   of "Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:06:09 EDT." <Pine.LNX.4.50.0307231406020.27647-100000@ordinaryworld.com> 
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:58:20 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:06:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dave Temkin <dave@ordinaryworld.com>
> 
> Unless of course I block ICMP for the purposes of denying traceroute but
> still allow DF/etc.  Then it's not "broken" as you say.

And where do the ICMPs come from if the DF bit results in a failure?
Surely not an RFC1918 address.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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