TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?

Mon Feb 3 03:49:37 UTC 2014

On 3/02/14 4:45 pm, "Cb B" <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Feb 2, 2014 7:41 PM, "Larry Sheldon" <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:
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>> On 2/2/2014 9:17 PM, ryangard at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd hate to think that NetOps would be so heavy handed in blocking
>>> all of UDP, as this would essentially halt quite a bit of audio/video
>>> traffic. That being said, there's still quite the need for protocol
>>> improvement when making use of UDP, but blocking UDP as a whole is
>>> definitely not a resolution, and simply creating a wall that not only
>>> keeps the abusive traffic out, but keeps legitimate traffic from
>>> flowing freely as it should.
>>
>>
>> "We had to burn down the village to save it."
>>
>>
>
>Close. More like a hurricane is landing in NYC so we are forcing an
>evacuation.
>
>But. Your network, your call.
>
>CB

We block all outbound UDP for our ~200,000 Users for this very reason
(with the exception of some whitelisted NTP and DNS servers). So far we
have had 0 complaints, and 0 UDP floods sourced from us

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Geraint Jones

Director of Systems & Infrastructure
Koding AS62805
(We are hiring)
https://koding.com
geraint at koding.com
Phone (415) 653-0083

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