NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/protocol/tcpip/5121

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From: [e-mail] (Martin McCormick)
Subject: Re: Bootleggers
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I want to really thank everybody who answered my question about what to do
with or to those people who won't get with the program and register their
network interfaces.  Since certain actions had the potential for disrupting
honest network users, I asked that the responses be E-mailed to me.  I received
10 responses.  Fortunately, most of the measures which can be taken to stop
people from just picking an IP number and going full steam ahead are things
that only network managers can do, assuming the network is configured properly.
The best actions appear to be to tell all bridges or routers in your network
not to handle any packets from X interface.  If you can get everybody to
go along, run versions of tcp-ip applications that do a nslookup on every
connect request to see if they are in the name server data base.  Between
those two measures, the network should become a pretty boring place for
bootleggers.  Again, my thanks to all and also thanks for the recommendations
for management software which I received from a couple of posters.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ   Stillwater, OK
O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group