I'm surprised, but encouraged to hear that people think simply contacting bad clients is sufficient. In the 24 hours I've been watching stats with Wayne's scripts, 23 of the 372 clients are flagged as abusive; 4 are each sending requests about every 3 seconds. That seems like a lot to me!
I realized after sending my mail that we do have a means of group defense; DNS entries. If we have a way to identify bad clients we could simply stop serving DNS requests for pool.ntp.org to those clients. But maybe there's no need to develop this kind of thing. On automating Wayne's scripts: >I really haven't worked on them for quite a while, but I'm not sure >what "clean up" or "automation" I could do with them. What kind of >things were you thinking of? I was thinking of getting your scripts to the point you could just apt-get install ntp-server-stats I'm just thinking of tinkering myself, wanted to be sure I hadn't missed some fabulous thing others had done. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
