[89819] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Todd Vierling)
Fri Apr 7 18:33:56 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:31:38 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: David Hubbard <dhubbard@dino.hostasaurus.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <FCD26398C5EDE746BFC47F43EA52A1730166DBF1@dino.ad.hostasaurus.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, David Hubbard wrote:
> How about serve back bogus NTP data to non-BIX customer
> prefixes? Maybe if people's computers start setting
> themselves to the year 2004 D-Link will do something. :-)
Perhaps return back a time value that is ~10 seconds from wrapping around?
Where "wrapping" depends on the size of a time value in the device's OS.
(Note that if the devices crash because of bad input, I can hardly see that
as legally actionable, since the devices never had the permission to use the
data source in the first place. ;)
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
