Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

[Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu () deaddrop org>]

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.

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