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Re: Blockchain and Networking


From: valdis.kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:20:28 -0500

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:28:19 -0500, William Herrin said:
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Dale W. Carder <dwcarder () es net> wrote:

Traceroute or any other path diagnostics comes to mind.

That's not obvious to me. Assuming the time-exceeded message was modified
to include the necessary data, how would blockchain authenticate the
responding router?

And do you really want to do *all* that on every single 'TTL Exceeded' ICMP?  Sounds like
a *really* easy way to DDoS a router....

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