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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] IP geolocation bug
Date: Tue,  3 Apr 2007 17:41:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190704030041p5d02196bnbcfb7cbfe5fe8953@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27B24027-7E3A-4C6C-89B0-D190E0C58D11@orthanc.ca>

it scrounges around, as would the author, and makes a good guess.
the ozinferno http service uses the algorithm.  it blocks kansas
(only kidding).

brucee

On 4/3/07, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
>
> On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:29 PM, Bruce Ellis wrote:
>
> > the code is very cool.  presto wrote it.  not sure if it's public
> > tho i have a limbo version.
>
> I guess I'm more curious about how to validate the database of source
> IP addresses in the face of tunneling.  The Nanog crowd simply foams
> at the mouth when this subject comes up.
>
> Has someone come up with a way to characterize packet flows through
> tunnels in a way that makes it possible to fingerprint the origin?
> That can fingerprint the client on the far end of Tor a pipe?
>
> --lyndon
>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-03  7:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-03  3:47 Alex Kritikos
2007-04-03  4:00 ` Russ Cox
2007-04-03  5:29   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-04-03  6:29     ` Bruce Ellis
2007-04-03  7:35       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2007-04-03  7:41         ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2007-04-03  8:23           ` Lyndon Nerenberg

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