Re: address spoofing

[Sean Donelan <SEAN () SDG DRA COM>]

randy () psg COM (Randy Bush) writes:
> first, apologies for bringing up an operational issue.

Don't worry, I'm sure we'll spin off topic within five messages.

> a long while back, i noticed my border filters were showing incoming
> packets from 1918 addresses and my own address blocks.  i wrote this off
> to anomalies and did not have the time to pursue.

Steven Bellovin wrote a paper a while back about the mystery packets
found on the Bell Labs/AT&T Labs/What-ever-its-called-this-week network.

ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/doc/network/Packets.ps.Z
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
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