[ntp:questions] better rate limiting against amplification attacks?

Rob nomail at example.com
Thu Jan 16 09:22:43 UTC 2014


Harlan Stenn <stenn at ntp.org> wrote:
> William Unruh writes:
>> I do not mean the default in the config file, I mean the default if
>> there is no config file or if nothing is set in the config file.
>
> Then ntpd won't connect to anything and there will be no data to report.

The data to report is not what ntpd connects to, but what is connecting
to ntpd.  Even when there is no server or anything else configured,
others could still poll the machine and incoming connect data will
accumulate.



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