Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 13:52:13 +1000 (EST) From: Ross Wheeler <rossw@albury.net.au> To: twig les <twigles@yahoo.com> Cc: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, Kim Okasawa <kimokasawa@hotmail.com>, <_@r4k.net>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NTP security - (was Any security issues with root's cron job?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0207061350010.24921-100000@giroc.albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20020706032916.35363.qmail@web10105.mail.yahoo.com>
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> The way we skirt the issue of having our own secure > source is to get our border routers to poll a couple > of servers on the internet and then the servers can > poll them. There are a number of possible attacks on > this, but we're not getting 20 grand for our own > source anytime soon > I'm open to ideas. Whip over to ebay, buy a cheap second-hand GPS and cable, stick it into one of your servers and presto - instant "stratum 1" time reference for under a hundred bucks. Under your control (I can't see anyone taking over or DoSing the whole of the GPS network any time soon, do you?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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