Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ucbvax!UDEL.EDU!Mills
From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  PING with source/record route
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Date: 26 May 88 18:05:09 GMT
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Peter,

The original PING (Packet Inter-Net Groper) was written for the fuzzball
circa 1980 and is still in use, although continuously modified, hacked and
abused. I don't think you want that program, which is written in PDP11
assembler and is full of trap doors, Trojan horses and covert channels
(the IP sequence number is really the local millisecond clock, tra la, tra
la). What you probably do want is the Unix PING last heard from BRL. Track
down Mike Minnich (minnich@udel.edu), who has hacked the BRL version to
include record-route and other gizmos.

Dave