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D-Link Firmware Abuses Open NTP Servers
DES writes "FreeBSD developer and NTP buff Poul-Henning Kamp runs a stratum-1 NTP server specifically for the benefit of networks directly connected to the Danish Internet Exchange (DIX). Some time last fall, however, D-Link started including his server in a hardcoded list in their router firmware. Poul-Henning now estimates that between 75% and 90% of NTP traffic at his server originates from D-Link gear. After five months of fruitless negotiation with a D-Link lawyer (who alternately tried to threaten and bribe him), he has written an open letter to D-Link, hoping the resulting publicity will force D-Link to acknowledge the issue. There are obvious parallels to a previous story, though Netgear behaved far more responsibly at the time than D-Link seem to be."
and point it to Dlinks servers, perhaps when they are innundated with ntp request packets they will change their routers config in the future (or set their own one up with the millions of dollars they earn in "profit")
seems like a bit of a fuss over nothing, if you dont want people to use your NTP server then logic would dictate dont set one up in the first place
Do you understand the concept of a "pool" dumbshit? You are connecting to one of a number of random IPs, run by some random person who happens to be running httpd on the same machine as his ntp server. Its nothing to do with the people running pool.ntp.org at all.