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Some vendors of consumer electronics and network gear have
unfortunately chosen to embed, or "hard-code", globally-routable
Internet Protocol ...
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One recent example was the embedding of the globally-routable IP
address of a Network Time Protocol server in the firmware of hundreds
of thousands of Internet hosts ...
... Due to dynamic address allocation and increasingly frequent
network renumbering, temporal uniqueness of IPv4 addresses is no
longer globally guaranteed, which puts their use as identifiers ...
... Internet host and router designers, including network product
manufacturers, should not assume that their products will be deployed
and used in only the single global Internet ...
... IP addresses
has been the hard-coding of addresses of well known public Simple
Network Time Protocol (SNTP RFC 2030(-> 4330) [8 ...
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Service providers and enterprise network operators should advertise
the identities of suitable local services, such as NTP ...
... Hamilton, M. and R. Wright, "Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services", BCP 17, RFC 2219, October 1997. ...
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In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin discovered that a network
product vendor named NetGear had manufactured and shipped over
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... flood of Internet traffic from hundreds of thousands of source
addresses, destined for the University's network, resulting in
significant operational problems.
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