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. Michael Dillon ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com