On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 03:54 -0800, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: 
> yeah; it's pretty dumb.  http://www.pool.ntp.org/ gets hundreds of thousands 
> of requests a day from people trying to use the 'Date' header to set their 
> time.

If it makes you feel better, www.pool.ntp.org is not alone :-)

::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:20:58:38
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:00:16
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:00:17
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:02:14
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:03:42
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"
::ffff:66.x.x.15 1.north-america.pool.ntp.org - [04/Dec/2009:21:03:43
+0000] "HEAD / HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "htpdate/1.0.0"

(That's one way to do it, I suppose.)  -rt

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Ryan Tucker <[email protected]>

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