On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 01:38 PM, Derek Fawcus wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 12:07:23PM -0700, Alain Durand wrote:
>>
>> The ICMP name lookup tells you who a node pretends to be,
>> not what its globally unique assigned name has been cryptographically
>> verified
>> You may or may not trust this information.
>> For local debuging purpose, it is valuable information, but it would
>> certainly raises major concerns if it were to be applied on the
>> Internet.
>
> But surely you simply use the name retrned to do a forward lookup and
> verify that the original address is one of those returned?
.. assuming the name returned is in the global name space.
- Alain.
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