If you have nothing to hide

Mon Aug 5 15:03:44 UTC 2002

Of course, I mean denial of service attacks using source routing, i.e. made
possible by use of same. I guess I need to be semantically perfect and
I don't always have a wonderful command of the english language it seems,
but please grant that I'm not stupid.

Thanks

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:51:45AM -0400, bdragon at gweep.net wrote:

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> denial of service based upon source routing? I hadn't heard of any denial
> of service attacks of that sort.
> 
> Disabling source-routing is like filtering icmp, sure you might block
> a few abuses, but more often than not, you are throwing out legitimate
> traffic.