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Learned today about the 'Kiss-O'-Death' packet in the NTP spec. Had to be implemented because at one point 750,000 routers were manufactured with a faulty NTP impl that sent requests every second. Overloaded U Wisconsin's internet and servers. www.ntp.org/documentatio... www.ntp.org/reflib/brief...

They were careful to not name and shame but… NetGear!

I love a good write up, especially when it wasn’t my gear falling over. pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/lisa...