Semi-urgent: Disable NTP replies?

Darren Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Tue Feb 18 23:25:28 UTC 2014


On 2/18/2014 3:18 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> If you want to prevent your ntp process from being used in DDOS
> reflection attacks, just put this directive in the ntp.conf file:
>
> disable monitor
>
> You don't necessarily have to restrict access for normal queries
> (unless you want to).

You can disable the monitoring features, but they do have use.  Normal 
queries are only restricted if you use the "kod" or "ignore" restrict 
keywords.


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