[time-nuts] D-Links NTP server vandalism

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Apr 7 07:44:22 EDT 2006


In message <829F2B39-85E9-4DDA-854B-48F9F34B8D4C at develooper.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?
Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= writes:

>Geez, you'd think they'd have learned from Netgears mistake a few  
>years ago[1].

Yes, I have repeatedly pointed that out to D-Link.

>[3] I'm planning to offer service to vendors, but they have to use  
>$company.vendor.pool.ntp.org or something like that so it can be  
>turned off or pointed to their own servers or some variation of that  
>if/when their software turns out to be broken[1].

D-Link would be an eminent posterboy for the need for that concept.


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