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Article #339Re: Summary: Re: Disabling telnetd and ftpd etc
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 04:48
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 04:48
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In article <1992Sep2.150939.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au> daniel@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au writes:
>scott@prism.gatech.edu mentioned that there is no protection against
>IP spoofing (a machine pretending to have another's address.) No-one
>else mentioned this. How serious a threat is it? Are routers told
>which machines are on the 'inside' and which are on the 'outside' of
>a subnet?
We have the packet filter on the router that connects us to NEARnet set up
to do this. It won't forward any packet whose source address is on our
network.
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Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Summary: Re: Disabling telnetd and ftpd etc Message-ID: <1845fgINNsj1@early-bird.think.com> Date: 3 Sep 92 04:48:48 GMT References: <1992Sep2.150939.1@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au> Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com