[ntp:hackers] RFC-2030 update

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Fri Jul 25 09:44:09 PDT 2003


David,

Obviously, my zing at Windows was purposely contrived to irritate the 
hell out of them due the XP gaffe. I may or may not leave the zing in 
the final draft depending on my state of mind at the time. At least it 
caught your attention, which is what I had in mind.

Dave

David J Taylor wrote:

>"While not required in a conforming SNTP client implementation, it is wise
>to consider a suite of sanity checks designed to avoid various kinds of
>abuse that might happen as the result of server implementation errors
>(Windows comes to mind) or malicious attack."
>
>I feel that mention of a specific OS is not appropriate here.  You later
>chose not to mention the maker network kit which was actually identified
>to have a specific implementation error.
>
>David
>  
>




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