TWC (AS11351) blocking all NTP?
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Feb 3 09:52:29 UTC 2014
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:49:49PM -0800,
Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote
a message of 49 lines which said:
> If NTP responded to a single query with a single equivalently sized
> response, its effectiveness as a DDoS attack would be zero; with
> zero amplification, the volume of attack traffic would be exactly
> equivalent to the volume of spoofed traffic the originator could
> send out in the first place.
It is a bit more complicated. Reflection with amplification is
certainly much less useful for an attacker but it has still some
advantages: the attack traffic coming to the victim's AS will be
distributed differently (entering via different peers), making
tracking the attacker through Netflow/Ipfix more difficult.
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