[Reordered so that the answer does not precede the question.]

On 2005-12-22, David J Taylor wrote:

> David L. Mills wrote:
>
>> Current ntpd will clamp the poll interval to not less than 4 in
>> server replies no matter what the client says. If KoD is enabled, it
>> will return KoD packets if the headway beteen packets is less than 1
>> s or the average headway is less than 4 s.
>
> .. and so if the client ignores the KoD, it may keep hammering on the
> server every second?

It would be useful to have ntpd spit out the offending IP address as an
async message (e.g. via a trap) for use by a firewall.

-- 
Steve Kostecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
NTP Public Services Project - http://ntp.isc.org/

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