I think I've found Achim's bug

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> Looks like the idea in the old code was to set the minpoll to the polling 
> interval from the KoD packet.
> 
> Looks like Daniel changed that to 10.  I'd guess that's a hack defense against 
> something worse from a forged packet.  10 seems safe for the server but not 
> nice to the client trying to keep accurate time.
> 
> KoD packets can be forged, so anything in this area is a DDoS opportunity.  
> But that processing is after some filtering, so the attack isn't wide open.
> 
> I vote changing it back, and checking that we log KoD packets.

I'm inclined to concur.  But I'd like to hear from Daniel and others
before we make a final decision.
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