On Thursday 15 October 2009 04.11:36 [email protected] wrote:
> Then at the top of the hour,
> NTP servers get hammered by by all the little single requests that the
> admin won't notice.

And if we all would just start closing port 123 udp on the firewall on 
xx:59:57 and open it again on 00:00:03?

(Should be easy by a small cron job running in minute 59, sleep 55s setting 
the firewall rule, sleep 5s, remove the firewall rule.  On a lightly loaded 
system where cron jobs and such small commands are not delayed by swapping 
etc.)

cheers
-- vbi

-- 
The only application I've seen in which the complete removal of vast
sections of code makes it run better, and when I eventually found a
section of code with a comment, the comment was in Spanish.
        -- Fantod in alt.religion.kibology

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