My suggestion removing an option was meant to be kod, sorry if that was 
unclear. The reason for this suggestion is that some clients react badly, 
causing a flood of queries.

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sent from my iPod - please excuse the brevity

Am 03.03.2014 um 04:14 schrieb Brian Rak <[email protected]>:

> Removing noquery is not a good idea.  You *will* be abused for DDOS attacks 
> in short order.  I think the "repeating their query" that you're seeing is 
> someone who's being attacked.  It's very unlikely a legitimate client is 
> repeating their query over and over again.
> 
> Just use noquery.  As far as I'm aware, KOD has no effect on management 
> queries (such as monlist).
> 
> On 3/2/2014 5:06 PM, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
>> 
>> Check the lines with "restrict" and "default" in the file ntpd.conf.
>> 
>> Is "noquery" included? If not: append it. People who want do make DDOS 
>> attacks love ntp servers where this is missing. But they will not 
>> necessarily notice that you have added it, and might keep trying.
>> 
>> If "noquery" was already included, then is "kod" included? Some clients 
>> react to this by repeating their query. Try removing it.
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