GPS.dix.dk service is described as: DK Denmark GPS.dix.dk (192.38.7.240) Location: Lyngby, Denmark Geographic Coordinates: 55:47:03.36N, 12:03:21.48E Synchronization: NTP V4 GPS with OCXO timebase Service Area: Networks BGP-announced on the DIX Access Policy: open access to servers, please, no client use Contacts: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk@FreeBSD.org) Note: timestamps better than +/-5 usec. I think he should use dns views to answer the queries to gps.dix.dk and either: ( a ) answer 127.0.0.1 to all queries from outside his service area ( b ) answer a D-Link IP address to all queries from outside his service area (which could lead to getting their attention; dunno if from their engineers or from their lawyers). Rubens On 4/7/06, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org> wrote:
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.
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