Rob <nom...@example.com> wrote: > Rich <schmidt.r...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Someone is "at war" with USNO NTP service. They could be students, >> who knows? But all of the offending addresses traced to Chinese >> sites. In order to continue to provide NTP to US customers, USNO >> elected to block Chinese networks at the /8 level whenever we were >> able to trace the attacks to those networks. Note that there are >> 2,605 known Chinese CIDR blocks. It takes some time to implement that >> block list, and it requires considerable horsepower. When it comes >> to making a choice between staying online and denying USNO NTP to >> China, we must unfortunately make the more secure choice. > > Yeah, sure. > But where you went over the line is when you recommended others to > do the same. Your local solutions to your particular problems are > not to be recommended to be used by the rest of the world.
I highly disagree. Anyone can recommend anything they want. It is up to the individual to evaluate the recommendation and decide if the recommendation makes any sense for that individual's particular situation. -- Jim Pennino Remove .spam.sux to reply. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
