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Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
From: John Dupuy <jdupuy-list () socket net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:00:58 -0500
To keep this operational: Operationally the network operator should contact a lawyer before doing something like this.
Purposely and knowingly sending bad data in order to do harm is a counter-attack. As such it might be vigilantism, which is illegal in most countries. Or it might be self-defense, which is not illegal. Might. Contact a lawyer.
John At 07:36 PM 4/10/2006, Simon Lyall wrote:
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote: > One particular piece of crapware of the tucows archive variety would retry > once per second if it hadn't heard a response - but a ICMP Port Unreachable> would trigger an *immediate* query, so it would basically re-query at whatever> the RTT for the path was. I've said in other forums the only solution for this sort of software is to return the wrong time (by several months). The owner might actually notice then and fix the problem. Just not returning anything means the time still works on the querying device (especially if it uses multiple servers) and the problem will not be noticed and it will continue. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
Current thread:
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism, (continued)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steve Sobol (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Mike Tancsa (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism John Underhill (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism John Underhill (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steve Sobol (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Chris Kuethe (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism goemon (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism John Dupuy (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alexei Roudnev (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Eric Pancer (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law (Apr 11)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alexei Roudnev (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism tony sarendal (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Stephen Sprunk (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Richard A Steenbergen (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Steve Sobol (Apr 12)
- Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism Alain Hebert (Apr 13)