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Re: Access to the Internic Blocked


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () quake net>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 21:49:03 -0700

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?

--vadim


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