At 01:24 PM 9/18/96 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:

At 10:43 AM 9/18/96 -0400, Jeff Young wrote:

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i guess the one common thread of this discussion is that whatever must be done, must be done on the edges of the internet. and that's not a cop out, we have as many edge cases as we have connections to isp's.

No argument here.

If that be the consensus then there is only one way to accomplish anything and that is for a handful of large backbone providers to begin checking and to require that their peers also check source addresses. Otherwise it's just an undocumented BCP. --Kent