[outages] enough of this ntp bs.

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Wilcox" <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com>

> I'm also not convinced BCP38 will make the issue go away, it only takes a
> small number of ISPs to either not be implementing it or accidentally stop
> filtering and modern server and home broadband connection speeds are fast
> enough that a handful of bots can generate very large amounts of traffic. I
> think ISPs and upstreams need to be more proactive in identifying open NTP
> servers in their customers networks.

Sure, but at least a server which is being used to bank off of, but 
for some reason cannot immediately fix things the right way, will be
helped by -38, since source packets will have *real* filterable addresses.

Cheers,
-- jra
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