Hello,
On 22 Jul 2011, at 15:48, Ronald Bonica wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> In Section 4.1 of the draft-ietf-lisp you say:
> 
>   In order to defer the need for a mapping lookup in the reverse
>   direction, an ETR MAY create a cache entry that maps the source EID
>   (inner header source IP address) to the source RLOC (outer header
>   source IP address) in a received LISP packet.  Such a cache entry is
>   termed a "gleaned" mapping and only contains a single RLOC for the
>   EID in question.  More complete information about additional RLOCs
>   SHOULD be verified by sending a LISP Map-Request for that EID.  Both
>   ITR and the ETR may also influence the decision the other makes in
>   selecting an RLOC.  See Section 6 for more details.
> 
> Has anyone thought through the security implications and possible unexpected 
> side effects of these "gleaned" mappings?
> 

Gleaning can be used to leverage many attacks (see draft-ietf-lisp-threats). In
this doc, we also provide a section related only to security issues with
gleaning (Sec 7.3)

Damien Saucez

>                                           Ron
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