Rolf, As a historical tidbit you may want to include in your draft. IPv6 supported reverse traceroute out of the box. Using RH0 and sending a packet to yourself via the destination. That code is probably still in stacks.
O. > On 25 Nov 2022, at 13:56, Rolf Winter <rolf.win...@hs-augsburg.de> wrote: > > Dear Intarea WG, > > in the not so distant future, we will make an update to our internet draft on > a reverse traceroute mechanism, that you can find here: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-heiwin-intarea-reverse-traceroute-00 > > Feedback welcome! > > We now also have publicly available running code (both server and client > implementations), that you can find here: > > https://github.com/HSAnet/reverse-traceroute > > We would appreciate, if people could offer to host a reverse traceroute > server on the public internet, since we are both evaluating the current > implementation and planning our next improvements. If anybody is interested, > please reach out to me. Also, if people would like to run the client, there > is a command line switch that will send us the result of a reverse traceroute > run. We would appreciate, if you could run our client against one or more > public instances of reverse traceroute, that would be great and use the > switch to send us the measurement. So far there is only one public endpoint, > but the list in the ENDPOINTS file in the above mentioned github repository > will be updated, as more public endpoints come online. > > In addition to the implementation, we presented our work at DENOG14 (the > annual conference of the german network operators group). The feedback from > the operational community was very good and there is interest in the work. If > you would like to hear about reverse traceroute and the things that drove our > design, the talk was recorded and is available here: > > https://youtu.be/Y7NtqLEtgjU > > As always, please read the document, send us feedback and if you can host a > reverse traceroute instance, please reach out. > > Thanks a lot, > > Rolf > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > Int-area@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
