All and all I guess it supports my assumption that port-37 traffic indeed is
related to being listed as a public NTP. :-)

Roelant.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Ryan Tucker <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 03:54 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> > yeah; it's pretty dumb.  http://www.pool.ntp.org/ gets hundreds of
> thousands of requests a day from people trying to use the 'Date' header to
> set their time.
>
> If it makes you feel better, www.pool.ntp.org is not alone :-)
>
> ::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:20:58:38
> +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
> ::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:00:16
> +0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
> [...]
> (That's one way to do it, I suppose.)  -rt
>
> --
> Ryan Tucker <[email protected]>
>
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