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Michael Dillon writes: > > On Tue, 9 Jul 1996, Daniel W. McRobb wrote: > > > There will likely never be a means for a single NSP to track down the > > real source of spoofed packets using IPv4. Service providers won't be > > letting other service providers track spoofed packets through their > > network. > > Why not? Don't telcos do this? > Or if your answer is that telcos only do it for the police and not for > each other, then my question would be why can't we form an Internet > equivalent, maybe affiliated with something like CERT, that can make these > requests and with whom NSP's would cooperate. What sort of incentive or penalty do you think would enable this cooperation? Nevin -- -Nevin Williams ANS Network Operations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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