22 Feb
2014
22 Feb
'14
4:09 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote: Perhaps you would rather publish a blacklist of "/24s containing NTP servers open to MONLIST" over UDP port 123 similar to the bogon feeds. And encourage all networks to blackhole the list. That way potential NTP reflection abuse traffic gets stuffed as close to the source as possible.
It's never appropriate to respond to abuse with abuse. Not only is it questionable/unprofessional behavior, but -- as we've seen -- there is a high risk that it'll exacerbate the problem, often by targeting innocent third parties.
I understand the frustration but this is not the way.
---rsk
-- -JH