From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 23:24:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2870416A4EF for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE5143D55 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851AE291B33 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:57 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95707-04 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:24:07 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFD7290C38 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:23:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0AB5D5C672; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:46:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 4CD0E4AA85; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:20:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 472044AA6C; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:20:08 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:20:08 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: Ted Mittelstaedt In-Reply-To: <003f01c6b2cb$c42d5bd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> Message-ID: <20060729021705.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <003f01c6b2cb$c42d5bd0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Atom Powers , Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:24:09 -0000 On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > You might think this sounds harmless but folks have done this kind of > thing in the past with other products and wreaked havoc on the Internet. > You can start by referencing "dlink ntp fiasco" in google to get an idea > of what can happen to these kinds of well meaning attempts. Let > sleeping dogs lie. 'k, you lost me on how this relates to the fiasco ... I did a quick search on Google for it, and, unless I didn't find the right reference, the 'fiasco' had to do with DLink setting up their software to ping PHKs NTP Server, without getting permissions first, and, thereby, flooding him with NTP requests ... > People just don't realize just how very big the Internet is. That is the problem, yes ... nobody knows how big the FreeBSD community is ... :) ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664