Re: Traceroute Mal-formed packets

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, John McLaren wrote:
> It appears that the UDP packets generated by the traceroute utilities are
> malformed - illegal header length. I have posted an article of my findings:
>
> http://campus.murraystate.edu/tsm/tsm352/LinuxStuff/TraceRouteBug.doc
>
> I would appreciate hearing about any other information anyone might have on
> this subject.

I bet that if the findings were in a non-proprietary format, this might
spark more activity.

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