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. -- "You can't have in a democracy various groups with arms - you have to have the state with a monopoly on power," Condoleeza Rice, the US secretary of state, said at the end of her two-day visit to Baghdad yesterday. ...No Comment