[89831] 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 21:34:01 2006
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:32:10 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
To: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
Cc: Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0604071819580.8179@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Matt Ghali wrote:
> > I think the lesson here is that any service you make available to the public
> > (NTP, DNS, IRC, SMTP, whatever) is going to be used in ways that do not
> > match with your desires. If you're not willing to ACL/police the service,
> > you're going to have to accept that people are going to use it in ways you'd
> > rather they didn't.
>
> The repeated suggestions that the best response to this sort of situation is
> to 'deal with it' are saddening. Did he "deserve it" because of the short
> skirt he was wearing?
And, if a service were available to the public *as a matter of courtesy* (or
even as a matter of accident) and not *advertised to the public*, then those
using the [unadvertised] service must cope if and when the service
disappears, or even starts misbehaving deliberately.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>
