PHKs recent trouble with D-Link - http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/
dlink/ - made me change my mind on the pool supporting such vendors.
Some of my thoughts:
1) Better that the vendors use the pool than random s1 servers.
After all, lessening the load on the big s1 servers is the foundation
of the pool project.
2) Right now a vendor could just use the pool and I doubt we'd have
much legal standing if we needed to make them stop. With this we can
let them use the pool but only after getting in touch so we will have
a contact there.
3) From the data from the d-link requests[1] I'm estimating that they
do around 2000rps -- not a terrifying amount of traffic. It is not
outside what we can support with a bit of contributions as long as we
can manage the traffic with special DNS names (hence the need for a
policy of getting a special setup before using the pool).
4) One of my experiments is currently serving about 500 requests per
second for the pool on very modest hardware. (See my previous mail
regarding solicitations).
Anyway, please read the "For Vendors" document I wrote before replying:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/vendors/
- ask
ps. to those of you who emailed me regarding the solicitation mail
from a few weeks ago -- you are not forgotten, I've just been a bit
overloaded!
[1] http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/04/07/when-firmware-
attacks-ddos-by-d-link/
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