At 5:29 -0700 4/11/00, der Mouse wrote:
>[moved from a less appropriate elsewhere]
>
>>  We ship with source-routing enabled by default?
>
>I should hope so.
>
>Disabling source routing is shooting the messenger.  The problem is not
>source routing; the problem is daemons that make security decisions
>based on peer IP addresses.  Disabling source routing is like blocking
>ICMP in order to stop ping-of-death DoS - the right thing to do is fix
>the bugs, not paper over the holes.

I agree. Now, let's go fix Microsoft, Apple, Sun, SGI, IBM, HP...

	cynical? me?

	Erik <fair@clock.org>