In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nicholas Suan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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. [...] >> >> I see this claimed again and again, and always people speak up to >> deny it. My experience, too, [...] > > 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 There may be a subtle difference here that is being overlooked. It may well be that *abusive* clients that are shut off don't get worse, or at least not much worse, while *non-abusive* clients start polling more often or turn into abusive clients. Both Nicholas and Tim reported stuff getting worse when *all* clients are effected, while my experience is with how already abusive clients react. If I recall correctly, the other people who have reported good resuts have also specifically limited their blocking to only abusive clients. -wayne _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
