I think the standard should be any hardcoded ntp (or DNS or whatever) sources should be ones you own. Like in Ubuntu that ships with the Ubuntu NTP servers as the default. Just makes sense. How hard is it for a big company like D-link to setup a permanent stratum 2 NTP box out there? --j Erik Anderson wrote: > On 4/13/06, Scott Raun <sraun at fireopal.org> wrote: > >> Who's already seen this? >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/dlink/ >> >> It seems that D-Link has hard-coded a list of Stratum 1 time-servers >> into their consumer devices, and they are not admitting any >> responsibility for mis-use. There are some very unhappy system >> administrators right now, and some talk of a boycott. >> > > Saw it last week...came across Digg I believe. Shame on D-Link for > this. I've always thought that D-Link made both shoddy hardware and > software so I've avoided purchasing their gear. Now I have another > reason to avoid them like the plague. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >