On 2008-12-31, Unruh <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, the ntp survey is a "port scan " (one port, but getting no trivial
> information from it). Any law would have a hard time differentiating
> between the "port scanning that is not yours" and the ntp survey.

The ntp survey consists of an ntpdate poll and a few status queries of
publically accessible servers.

If these polls and queries are considered a criminal "port scan" then
many NTP users are guilty of an actionable offense.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <[email protected]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/

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