Re: syn attack and source routing

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 03:17:27 -0400  Curtis Villamizar wrote:
> If source routing is blocked at the end site it doesn't help any
> toturn it off in the backbones and turning it off destroys the ability
> to trace routing problems that customers report (short of finger
> pointing to another provider or giving the customer the run around by
> successive handoffs to other NOCs debugging, any "I can't get there
> from here" is sort of hopeless if you can't traceroute -g).

Since more and more are blocking source routing and breaking traceroute -g
then those that block it at their router should at the very least make 
a WWW traceroute available from their system so as to diagnose those
problems you mention.  Almost all those that I have in my web site
(http://www.ibm.net.il/traceroute) are customers connected to major ISPs.
I think the 10 majors should have on their backbones a WWW traceroute
as above.

> Curtis

Hank

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