April 7, 2006

D-Link abuses public NTP server

D-Link's misconfigured software is overloading public NTP servers—echoing Netgear’s 2003 misstep. Discover the ongoing impact and calls for accountability.

From: Ask Bjørn Hansen: D-Link abuses public NTP server

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote an open letter to D-Link as a last-ditch attempt at getting them to show any interest in resolving the mess their badly configured software has caused (and is still causing).

Netgear did something similar in 2003.