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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 19:13:54 -0300
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).Neither of which would solve the problem of his bandwidth being used by these, although (b) might actually serve to get their attention.
This reduces the bandwidth, as instead of dropping NTP packets, they would never come to him in the first place.
Perhaps as a thanks to him for the public service he provides the DIX, all of the users at DIX could set their external routers to reject incoming NTP packets from networks other than their own? Or even combine
Which still would require him to answer DNS requests for gps.dix.de.
that with (b), although it might be more effective if it targeted, oh, www.dlink.com instead of an IP address.
Answering with CNAME instead of A is a good enhancement of the original idea... :-)
Then at least it would not be taking up internal DIX bandwidth capacity.
It still would require him to answer the DNS requests. Only way to addres that is everybody outside DIX declare gps.dix.de as www.dlink.com in their resolvers.
By no means am I encouraging legally actionable activity, however, and as noted, (b) just might be.
Motion granted. Rubens
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)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Mark Boolootian (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Kevin Day (Apr 07)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Matt Ghali (Apr 07)