[ntp:questions] Re: Public servers?

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri Aug 1 21:00:51 UTC 2003


At 5:51 AM +0000 2003/08/01, David L. Mills wrote:

>  If the ISP explicitly suggests a victim router, rejoice. If not,
>  do not rejoice and do not assume in any case whatsoever that a
>  casual pry of ISP routers for NTP response would be anything but
>  evil. Please talk to the CSIRO and U Wisconsin and Ultimeth
>  operator for consensus views.

	Harlan is not the criminal here.  Harlan doesn't have a tool that 
does a traceroute from his server to the IP address of the web 
browser, then does an ntpdate command against each of the IP 
addresses that show up.  Tim Hogard has that tool, and apparently has 
had it since 1995.  If you want to yell at someone, yell at Tim and 
not Harlan.

	What Harlan is trying to do is open a wider discussion on the 
possibility of NTP protocol enhancements that might allow us to do 
local auto-discovery of proper NTP servers, in accordance with the 
access and usage policies of the individuals or organizations that 
own the devices in question.  I think this is a good subject to 
discuss.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
     -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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