On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 11:34 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> l knowing the intent of the icmp draft, isn't it?
>
>> the node's opinion of its name isn't the same piece of information as
>> the network administrator's opinion of a node's name.
> ^ cryptogtaphically signed
>
> can you say "name spoofing"
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.
- Alain.
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