Adrian von Bidder wrote:

On Friday 09 September 2005 19.32, Brad Knowles wrote:
       The bigger problem is that many abusive clients become even more
abusive when they are denied access.  Many sites in the pool are
already doing firewall-type things locally, and they have found that
when they firewall an abusive client, the situation goes from bad to
worse.

I see this claimed again and again, and always people speak up to deny it. My experience, too, is that blacklisted clients (drop at firewall) go away after quite a short time; I've never seen them go berserk.)

Yes, *some* clients may go berserk after being blocked at the firewall, but apparently not 'many'.
Enough clients go berserk when they don't get a response that I can tell whenver my ntp server isn't responding to queries since the number of incoming packets doubles.
Like last saturday on this graph: http://vash.nonexiste.net/~FT/ntp-week.png
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