Yes, all the reasons that applied back then still apply, source routing has not changed so it hasn't become any safer.
the origional idea was to be a feature that good sysadmins could use to optimize their networks, but once it was discovered that this inherent trust model couldn't defend against a hostile sysadmin trying to do the wrong thing it needed to be disabled. the number of hostile sysadmins (or people who have what was once sysadmin control of a machine) is definantly not any less now then it was several years ago. David Lang On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, irado furioso com tudo wrote: > every other paper and/or recipe for firewalls, either linux or *BSD's > based enfasize that we *must* inhibt the source_routing. The only papers > I can find are for the 94~98 envyronment, for the jurassic era firewalls. > > Any reason to still block it?? > -- > > sauda��es, > > irado furioso com tudo. > Linux User (SuSE) 179.402 > que se pode esperar de um pa�s que considera bundas gordas como > 'talento'e intelig�ncia � aferida pelo 'show do milh�o'? > > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls > _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
