You have to read the mailing lists to find some kind of consensus. Basically, you are free to judge abuse as you wish, I drop packets when I got more than 500 from an IP with less than 60 secs interval.
-Louis On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > I fear that this is a FAQ, but I didn't find a FAQ which listed it. > If there is such a document, please point me to it and accept my > apologies for posting to this list. I have read the Usenet > discussions that are pointed to from http://www.pool.ntp.org/, but > those seem to predate the pool. > > I just recently joined the pool (ntp0.goldmark.org) and have just > started playing around with Wayne Schlitt's monitoring scripts. > > Well, I'm absolutely flabbergasted by the abusive clients. I'd like > some understanding of what's behind it and what people do about it. > > It don't see anything to gain by being deliberately abuse. You don't > gain anything by sending out a request 5 times per second. As > annoying as it is, there is little chance of doing any noticeable > vandalism. So my guess is that it is accidental. But how could > someone accidentally configure a client to just keep making requests. > > And what do people do about them. I can manually block those clients > at my firewall. I could report them to their ISPs and hosting > companies. I could just ignore the problem. I could lower my > claimed speed at the pool management site. > > I'm curious to know what others do. > > > -- > Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ > > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > Louis _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
