On 2013-11-08T01:28:56-0500, Sarah White <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even if you have ntp's internal rate limiter turned on (and the "kiss of
> death" feature enabled to block hosts which violate the limits) in my
> opinion the "query" functionality (ntpq and ntpdc) doesn't get rate
> limited, so I would have to say yes, it's probably one of the most
> abusable features in ntp.
> 
> My server has yet to be abused, but today I just opted to be that much
> more safe about things, and so I've opted to make the default restrict
> line much less abusable:
> 
> Previously I hadn't had kod enabled at all, but now I do
> (relaxed settings... and here are my notes)
> 
> The "discard" line is for tuning the values for "kod" rate limiting
> 
> The default settings for "discard" are "average 3" and "minimum 2"
> (if you omit the discard line, those values are used for kod)
> 
> "minimum" is in seconds
> (I figure "1 packet per second" is acceptable for very short periods)
> 
> "average" is log2 like the minpoll and maxpoll for peer or server lines
> (a value of 2 = 4 seconds, 3 = 8 seconds, 4 = 16 seconds, etc.)
> 
> 
> 
> # begin /etc/ntp.conf
> 
> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
> 
> discard average 2 minimum 1
> restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
> restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery
> restrict 127.0.0.1
> restrict -6 ::1
> 
> # (everything below here in my /etc/ntp.conf is configuration specific)

Pretty sure that won't do any rate limiting nor send KoD packets
without "limited" in the restrict line as well.
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/accopt.html#restrict

-- 
Kenyon Ralph

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