Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:00:14 CDT, Robert Bonomi said:
1) _Who_says_ it is 'false data'? *Who*knows* what that machines is 'supposed' to provide TO WHOM?
I think if you are handing another machine an NTP packet that's intentionally set several months off just to get them to shut up, you *know* the answer to "is it false data".
I submit that; 1) If the query originator is 'entitled' to make assumptions about what the
2) It would seem that the server operator is *equally* 'entitled' to make assumptions about what the query means, and 3) to respond in a manner consistent with _his_ understanding of what the query originater 'wanted'.
If the query originator fails to 'get what he wanted', due to his failure to communicate _in_advance_ with the server operator, *WHO* is to blame?
I suppose pointing out that the Internet works because providers *cooperate* and *agree on protocols* would be pointless....
Yeap ... cooperate... Which DLink is not doing. All legal discussion end the same way... a dead end. Half are scared by lawyer and the other have enought intestinal fortitude to put them in there place. (At the bottom of the sea hopefully) -- Alain Hebert ahebert@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. P.O. Box 175 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 5T7 tel 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net fax 514-990-9443