[ntp:questions] Re: Clogging defense

Hal Murray hmurray at suespammers.org
Fri Nov 7 07:57:38 UTC 2003


>Be advised in my cowardly design even KoD packets contain valid
>timestamps, so if the perp ignored the invalid leap field and stratum, a
>proper time/delay calculation would work. I have considered artfully
>altering the time values so the perp can't do that. But then some
>airplane crashes because of that and I get put in gaol or sued for my
>pension. There may be some discussion on that. 

An interesting example of society meets technology.

Consider what happens if the airplane crashes because it
couldn't get access to an overloaded server that didn't
defend itself well enough.

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