[89822] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Apr 7 18:58:20 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:57:50 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20060407224918.GM45591@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:49:18 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen
<ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
>
> Its just NTP, I can't imagine that it is *really* enough traffic to care
> all that much. There are probably a hundred people on this list who could
> donate free transit for this and not give it a second thought (hell if I
> had a pop anywhere close to .dk I would donate a gigabit solely to end
> this nanog thread before it turns into a bunch of self-righteous whining).
Did you read the posting? His ISP is charging him. He's also put in
a fair amount of time trying to get this resolved. As for transit --
NTP works much better with short RTTs, which is precisely why it's
good to have a server in Denmark.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
