North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Open relays and open proxies
It was explained to me by one of the kind folks at isc.org that my assertions were incorrect and why. I now stand corrected. my humblest apologies for the use of the bandwidth. Curtis On Saturday 26 April 2003 16:34, [email protected] wrote: > [CC list cleaned up] > > > I think the most basic thing that any xSP could do to prevent relays and > > other basic address spoofing would be to disable source ip routing in > > every router that's installed. I would prevent a lot of abuse. > > > > Curt > > Can you support with data either: > 1) IP source routing is used for "lots of abuse" > 2) disabling IP source routing would prevent "lots of abuse" > > LSRR is a tool utilized to verify network topology and investigate > such things as pointing default, etc. Several SP's require LSRR > at minimum on border routers for this reason.
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