7 Apr
2006
7 Apr
'06
7:30 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
Its just NTP, I can't imagine that it is *really* enough traffic to care all that much.
According to Richard Clayton (who helped Poul-Henning track the problem down) it's about 37pps continuously for each stratum-1 NTP server. (Remember there are many other servers configured into the D-Link firmware that are also being abused.) http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/04/07/when-firmware-attacks-ddos-by-... Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ BERWICK ON TWEED TO WHITBY: WEST OR SOUTHWEST 5 OR 6, PERHAPS INCREASING 7 LATER IN NORTH. RAIN AT FIRST. MAINLY GOOD. SLIGHT OR MODERATE.