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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
- From: John Hawkinson
- Date: Thu Aug 22 01:58:00 1996
> >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.
So now I need to hack my traceroute to send ICMP_ECHO_REQUESTS instead
of high-port udp packets?
Oh well, I guess we can put this right next to the patches to have
traceroute send TCP SYNs to get through stupid firewalls.
--jhawk
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