22 Jan
2001
22 Jan
'01
23:03
Why?
Any traceroute will still show every router hop leading to you. You can't hide on the Internet.
Traceroutes serve a very useful purpose. It's not good citizenship to try blocking them.
I disagree strongly. The local university blocks them (ICMP ones anyways) at their perimeter, so you can't map out the internal network so easily. Why is this being bad? I'd say it's a good neighbour policy, makes them a little harder to break into (and thus be used to attack me). It's not like you can do anything to FIX the problem when you see one nowadays (hell, good luck even figuring out who to contact). -Kurt