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| Subject: | Re: 0.0.0.0 Probes |
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| Date: | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:02:05 -0400 |
David, <snip>
These packets are not *to* 0.0.0.0; they just claim to be *from* there. Unless a router is specifically configured to check the source address for validity, it won't care. (The RFC passage you quote prevents attempts to *reply* to such packets from saturating the whole Internet.)
</snip> Agreed. Thank you for the correction.
"..SHOULD NOT originate datagrams addressed to 0.0.0.0".
Use of the words "originate" and "to" in the same phrase to represent traffic flow seems, at first glance, to be in conflict with each other, and is likely the source of my misinterpretation. Another example of the importance of semantics when then intention is to communicate accurately. -- Miles Stevenson miles@mstevenson.org PGP FP: 035F 7D40 44A9 28FA 7453 BDF4 329F 889D 767D 2F63
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