A good reason to avoid D-Link products?

FunkyT · 14 Apr 2006 at 09:00

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4906138.stm

FunkyT · 15 Apr 2006 at 09:07

Good enough for me anyway

tolien · 15 Apr 2006 at 10:21

The Netgear routers did it before too.

FunkyT · 15 Apr 2006 at 10:39

tolien said:
The Netgear routers did it before too.

Yeah, I found this: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ but that was like 3 years ago

tolien · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:11

Use a proper router, and you don't have the problem (either recently or not).

FunkyT · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:20

What is a "proper" router?

tolien · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:25

Something which isn't BetaGear, and probably isn't D-Link - though the BBC article doesn't say how often the D-Link kit is querying the server. :shrug:

NTP's supposed to start off with queries every few minutes (and then backs off), and if D-Link kit's the most popular (or has most idiots leaving the NTP server on default), what do you expect...

Duke · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:36

As if your average Joe is going to turn off or edit NTP server settings.. hard enough to get people to password wireless

tolien · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:39

Indeed, and unfortunately it's less trivial to randomly set an NTP server, so ta da, NTP server gets hammered.
Hardly an "OMG D-LINK R *** SUX0RS" story any more than any other manufacturer that it happens to.