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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
From: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rubensk () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:35:48 -0300
GPS.dix.dk service is described as: DK Denmark GPS.dix.dk (192.38.7.240) Location: Lyngby, Denmark Geographic Coordinates: 55:47:03.36N, 12:03:21.48E Synchronization: NTP V4 GPS with OCXO timebase Service Area: Networks BGP-announced on the DIX Access Policy: open access to servers, please, no client use Contacts: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk () FreeBSD org) Note: timestamps better than +/-5 usec. I think he should use dns views to answer the queries to gps.dix.dk and either: ( a ) answer 127.0.0.1 to all queries from outside his service area ( b ) answer a D-Link IP address to all queries from outside his service area (which could lead to getting their attention; dunno if from their engineers or from their lawyers). Rubens On 4/7/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org> wrote:
Well, this is at least marginally on topic, and I think it deserves a wider audience. It is written by Poul-Henning Kamp (the affected party). Please read it. http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ It ends with the following: Didn't something like this happen before? Yes, D-Link is not the first vendor to make a hash of the NTP protocol. Some years back NetGear products blasted University of Wisconsin off the net. I have repeatedly pointed D-Link's lawyer at this case. Fortunately, in my case it is not that bad. The NetGear incident caused the NTP protocol designers to add a "kiss of death" option to the Latest (S)NTP standard but D-Links devices does not respect that option. I have tried. -- "You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power," Condoleeza Rice, the US secretary of state, said at the end of her two-day visit to Baghdad yesterday. ...No Comment
Current thread:
- Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Etaoin Shrdlu (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Jeff Shultz (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Jeff Shultz (Apr 07)
- RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Mark Borchers (Apr 07)
- Which Cisco 7500 OS for high availability neal rauhauser (Apr 09)
- Re: Which Cisco 7500 OS for high availability Alain Hebert (Apr 10)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Jeff Shultz (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 07)