On 10 Feb 2014, at 14:13, Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Were the servers configured with restrict noquery? >> >> Yes. They've configured that way for years: >> >> % grep noquery /etc/ntp.conf >> restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery limited >> restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery limited > > That's odd. With noquery the server should respond only to normal > client requests and with limited+kod the outgoing packet rate should > be much smaller and not useful for an amplification/reflection attack. Indeed. However my servers were (D)DoS'ed, probably in reflection attacks. The point I was making was the above config file options didn't really help against those attacks on my NTP servers. So presumably if a bad guy's got a big enough botnet or using millions of fake source addresses ntpd's rate-limiting isn't up to the job => applying defensive measures in the upstream routers. IMO if too many spoofed? packets reach the NTP server, the bad guys have won no matter what ntpd does. Perhaps it's time to think about switching public NTP servers to TCP transport and only use UDP on the LAN? > Any chance the config also has "disable monitor"? No. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
