Hal Murray wrote: > [email protected] said: >> Is there *any* known way what a server can do to have clients reduce the >> number of requests, if the clients are not "friendly", but instead either >> coded in a dumb way, or have been specifically designed to be abusive? > > There have been several NTP overload abusive events. None of the people > involved with them have uncovered the sort of fix you are looking for, nor > has anybody reading about them offered one. > > A good logician can probably come up with a proof if you let them pick the > "dumb way".
Agreed. Just to be clear: what I meant is that I don't see any way how you can prevent bad guys or dump applications from sending floods of request (DoS) to a service, regardless whether the service is NTP, DNS, DHCP, or whatever. Martin _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
