[ntp:questions] Re: Can you test my server please.

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder grazdan at fortytwo.ch
Tue Nov 23 17:52:10 UTC 2004


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Clinging to sanity, Richard B. Gilbert mumbled in his beard:

> If people are abusing your server, try blocking them at the firewall
or 
> by using restrict statements.

The problem is that 
 - the servers often will continue to send 1 packet per second
 - the "admin" of the problematic system will never notice, because the
clock will be adequate enough without external sync

By returning a completely bogus time, we hope that the admins of the
problematic systems will notice that something is wrong with their time
server set up.

greetings
- -- vbi

- -- 
featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org

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