As the guy who runs Berkeley's high-quality NTP service, I understand 
how annoying it is when hosts run amok with your service.  [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
can you please figure out what's going on with these hosts and configure 
them accordingly?

thanks,
michael

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> Security,
> 
> Forwarding for your action, please. Thank you.
> 
> Erika
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:37:54 -0500
> From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: NTP abuse from 128.32.130.x
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I operate one of the many pool.ntp.org NTP servers.  Mine is
> ntp0.goldmark.org.  An IP on your network, 128.32.130.
> {108,111,112,113}, is making an inordinate number of requests.  It
> has made more than 676616 requests at rates of one request every 3.5
> seconds.
> 
> This is a clear sign of poor NTP configuration on (or behind) that IP
> address.  Please see
> 
>    http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/ntp-abuse/
> 
> for details.
> 
> I strongly suspect that berkeley.edu provides high quality NTP
> service for hosts on its network.  Please make use of those.
> 
> I have started to block NTP requests to my server from
> 128.32.130..0/24 (This won't effect other servers in pool.ntp.org
> because, like mine, they are all run by different volunteers on
> different parts of the network.)
> 
> I will remove the blocking as soon as I hear that you are going to
> look into the problem.
> 
> Thank you
> 
> -j
> 
> 

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