21 Sep
2005
21 Sep
'05
12:36 a.m.
In message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0509210006491.10349@soloth.lewis.org>, Jon Lewis writ es:
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
testing *from* the address block to a representative spread of addressing makes much more sense and would be much more indicative of forwarding (versus routing) problems, and would do so with some method
It's a good idea, but of course that requires someone in the allocated block to have a list of addresses to ping, all over the net.
Such lists aren't _that_ hard to come by. It's been done.
Sure -- but if you want a *representative spread*, it takes considerably more work. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb