[nsp-sec] NTP probes visiting a net near you

[Nick Hilliard]

On 26/12/2009 17:13, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Worse still, while time query request packets are the same size as time
> query response packets:

and, almost on cue, it turns out that ntp is susceptible to a bounce
attack.  Again, quite nasty for ntp servers with access to lots of bandwidth.

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568372

Nick
(and yes, I _did_ patch up all my ntp instances after my last email)