Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:00:14 CDT, Robert Bonomi said:
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> > 1) _Who_says_ it is 'false data'?  *Who*knows* what that machines is 'supposed'
> > to provide TO WHOM?
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> I think if you are handing another machine an NTP packet that's intentionally
> set several months off just to get them to shut up, you *know* the answer
> to "is it false data".
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> > I submit that;
> > 1) If the query originator is 'entitled' to make assumptions about what the
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> > 2) It would seem that the server operator is *equally* 'entitled' to make 
> >   assumptions about what the query means, and
> > 3) to respond in a manner consistent with _his_ understanding of what the
> >   query originater 'wanted'.
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> > If the query originator fails to 'get what he wanted', due to his failure
> > to communicate _in_advance_ with the server operator, *WHO* is to blame?
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> I suppose pointing out that the Internet works because providers *cooperate*
> and *agree on protocols* would be pointless....
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   Yeap ... cooperate...  Which DLink is not doing.

   All legal discussion end the same way...  a dead end.

   Half are scared by lawyer and the other have enought intestinal 
fortitude to put them in there place.

   (At the bottom of the sea hopefully)

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