Subject: Re: illegal network routes and a ponderance
To: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/22/2003 16:20:27
[ On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 08:09:11 (+0100), Pavel Cahyna wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: illegal network routes and a ponderance
>
> >
> > Fixing all the code that makes assumptions based solely on the IP
> > address would certainly be a good thing. Here are some of them that
>
> Maybe adding to tcpwrappers the option for checking for source-routed
> connections would be the easiest way?
IP Filter can already do this. Unless I'm unaware of some sockets magic
TCP Wrappers (or any other user-level application) can never do this....
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