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? DF -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
