Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

Fri Apr 7 22:57:50 UTC 2006

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:49:18 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen
<ras at 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