On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:58:19AM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
could someone here who can write win32 apps, and someone else who can write cocoa apps, please volunteer short executables that will try to spoof a few packets through some well known server, and then report as to whether the current computer/firewall/cablemodem/isp/core permitted this or not? isc would be happy to host the server component of this, as long as source code for the executables is available under a bsd style copyright, and the executables are released without any fee.
How would the spoofing program, or its user, be able to tell if it was successful? Unless I'm very confused, the definition of spoofing is that the return packets aren't going to come back to you. I can imagine a packet format where the real source address was in the data, but with no authentication this would itself be subject to abuse. You'd need a little protocol: Volunteer Server real-source-->server <--back to real source with ip to fake, cookie fake-source-->server with cookie <--back to real source with result as a courtesy Doing this from behind a NAT would be difficult. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.