PHK, So sorry to hear about your legal adventure.
Have a close look at "NTP" from the 1930's -- at just 5 cents a day [about $0.70 in today's dollar]: http://www.leapsecond.com/history/usno.htm Perhaps the problem with NTP (and email, and the web, etc.) is that the servers do all the work & pay all the bills and the clients ride for free. One can imagine a world where time to the second on the net is free, but the client pays more for ever increasing levels of delivered precision from the server. If millisecond NTP cost microcents, and microsecond NTP cost millicents, then quality NTP sites such as yours would be competing to have their hostnames show up in embedded systems. Every stray packet would be change in your pocket and a reward for the quality of your implementation instead of a thankless drain on your bottom line. Back to your situation; it is possible this abuse by the vendor gets them in trouble with strict California spam laws? /tvb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 03:37 Subject: [time-nuts] D-Links NTP server vandalism > > I'm sure some of you thought time-signals were an risk-free hobby: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
