jlevine <jlev...@boulder.nist.gov> wrote: > 2. Sending any reply at all doubles the network traffic and makes > an > attack more effective. Therefore, all of the NIST servers log the > event and > the source ip but do not respond. I think it is not appropriate for a > national > timing laboratory to knowingly send the wrong time.
While that is certainly true, you should be aware that malbehaving NTP clients do exist that handle the problem of not receiving a reply by sending the request more often. I.e. by not replying to rapidly polling clients, you make them poll more rapidly. Apparently they think the problem of packetloss in the network is best handled by sending more traffic. :-( _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
