Hi-- On Aug 16, 2012, at 11:51 PM, Matt Joyce wrote: > I'm not sure if this client has a severe bug or is intentionally trying to > overload the server but I have been receiving an average of around 500 > packets per second from them for the last hour and a half with occasional > drops to about 350 pps. This is despite ntpd sending a KOD and after that > completely ignoring them as I understand it there isn't much else that can > really be done about them from my end though server seems to be handling it > well enough. Thought it might help to ask in case there was something I > missed.
Best you can do is firewall drop the traffic, and report it to the IP owner and netblock contact in WHOIS as abusive. If it becomes burdensome, talk to your own ISP/upstream, and have them filter the traffic before it hits your pipe.... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
