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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > -- > "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 > > >