Re: traceroute as a flooder

[cjs () CYNIC NET (Curt Sampson)]

On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:

> While I agree with most other changes, I do not see why zou should
> forbid loopback if's for the source address.

Right. Another fellow mentioned this to me, too. It appears that
it would be better to allow addresses on the loopback interface,
but forbid 127.0.0.1. This is a bunch more code to add, though,
and I've not really thought out the implications of it. (For example,
could you use this to send stuff out to a network from an address
that's invalid for that particular network, such as 10.0.0.1 out
to an Internet link?)

I'd welcome a full analysis of this and further patches. I haven't
time to do this work myself, however.

cjs
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