@techreport{ietf-itrace-04, number = {draft-ietf-itrace-04}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-itrace/04/}, author = {Steven M. Bellovin and Marcus D. Leech and Tom Taylor}, title = {{ICMP Traceback Messages}}, pagetotal = 18, year = 2003, month = feb, day = 19, abstract = {It is often useful to learn the path that packets take through the Internet, especially when dealing with certain denial-of-service attacks. We propose a new ICMP message, emitted randomly by routers along the path and sent randomly to the destination (to provide useful information to the attacked party) or to the origin (to provide information to decipher reflector attacks).}, }