Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server (2003)

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What happened

Article URL: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688391 Points: 39 # Comments: 4…

Key facts

  • Article URL: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49688391 Points: 39 # Comments: 4…
  • Reported by Hacker News and published Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:33:18 UTC.

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