On 29 Jun 99, at 8:34, Dan Langille wrote:

> My comments are in brackets ==> [DL]
>
> [DL] - Strange. I have no idea why / how those could be arriving.
>

> [DL] - Strange. I have no idea why / how those could be arriving.

Glenn Phillips <glennp@null.net.nz> replied with:

Oh, it's quite simply a matter of network misconfiguration. Any largish
company will most likely be using a private address space internally. So
if there perimeter isn't sealed or is not translating address packets
correctly then (since they have a valid destination) they can still be
routed.

[DL] - that was my understanding as well. The next question is who is
doing it?

Our perimeter routers are configured to drop packets with a private
source address so those packets can never be replied to.

[DL] - same here.

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