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List:       netbsd-tech-net
Subject:    Re: RFC1393?
From:       Ignatios Souvatzis <is () NetBSD ! org>
Date:       2008-03-04 8:09:40
Message-ID: 20080304080940.GA6490 () beverly ! kleinbus ! org
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:37:41AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> 1393 is an experimental protcol which wouldn't even get that far if
> it were being proposed now (rather than 15 years ago when no-one much
> cared about things like amplification attacks).
> 
> Just forget it.

After reading it: I agree. While it is not necessarily a bad idea, 
making the address to send the answer to different from the source
address of the header is asking for trouble.

	-is
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