Recent NTP pool traffic increase (update)

Wed Dec 21 03:58:10 UTC 2016

Hello.

I'm Sho FUJIMURA.
I operate the public NTP Services as 133.100.9.2 and 133.100.11.8.
I'd like to reduce the traffic because I have trouble with too much
traffic recently.
So, I'm interested in the root of the the problem.
If possible, would you please tell me the model numbers of Tenda and TP-Link??

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Sho FUJIMURA
Information Technology Center, Fukuoka University.
8-19-1, Nanakuma, Jyonan-ku, Fukuoka, 8140180, Japan

2016-12-20 5:33 GMT+09:00 Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys at visp.net.lb>:
> I'm not sure if this issue relevant to discussed topic, Tenda routers here
> for a while on market, and i think i noticed this issue just now,
> because NTP servers they are using supposedly for healthcheck went down (or
> NTP owners blocked ISP's i support, due such routers).
>
> At least after checking numerous users, i believe Tenda hardcoded those NTP
> IPs. What worsen issue, that in Lebanon several times per day, for example
> at 18pm - short electricity cutoff,
> and majority of users routers will reboot and surely reconnect, so it will
> look like a countrywide spike in NTP traffic.
>
> I checked for a 10min also this NTP ips in dns responses, none of thousands
> of users tried to resolve any name with them over any DNS server, so i
> conclude they are hardcoded somewhere in firmware.
>
> Here is traffic of Tenda router after reconnecting (but not full powercycle,
> i dont have it in my hands). But as you can see, no DNS resolution attempts:
>
> 20:15:59.305739 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] CHAP, Success (0x03), id 1, Msg S=XXXXXX
> M=Authentication succeeded
> 20:15:59.306100 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Request (0x01), id 1, length
> 12
> 20:15:59.317840 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Request (0x01), id 1, length
> 24
> 20:15:59.317841 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Ack (0x02), id 1, length 12
> 20:15:59.317867 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Nack (0x03), id 1, length 18
> 20:15:59.325253 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Request (0x01), id 2, length
> 24
> 20:15:59.325273 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IPCP, Conf-Ack (0x02), id 2, length 24
> 20:15:59.335589 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IP 172.17.49.245.123 > 133.100.9.2.123:
> NTPv3, Client, length 48
> 20:15:59.335588 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IP 172.17.49.245.123 > 192.5.41.41.123:
> NTPv3, Client, length 48
> 20:15:59.335588 PPPoE  [ses 0x1483] IP 172.17.49.245.123 > 192.5.41.40.123:
> NTPv3, Client, length 48
>
>
> Here is example of Tenda traffic if it is unable to reach destination, it
> repeats request each 10 seconds endlessly, my guess they are using ntp to
> show
> status of internet connection.
> So, now that NTP servers getting quite significant DDoS such way.
>
> 19:57:52.162863 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38515, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 192.5.41.40.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177063.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177063.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
> 19:57:52.163277 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38516, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 192.5.41.41.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177063.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177063.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
> 19:57:52.164435 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38517, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 133.100.9.2.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177063.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177063.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:43)
> 19:58:02.164781 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38518, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 192.5.41.40.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177073.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177073.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
> 19:58:02.164884 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38519, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 192.5.41.41.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177073.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177073.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
> 19:58:02.165061 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 38520, offset 0, flags [none], proto
> UDP (17), length 76)
>     172.16.31.67.123 > 133.100.9.2.123: [udp sum ok] NTPv3, length 48
>         Client, Leap indicator:  (0), Stratum 0 (unspecified), poll 0 (1s),
> precision 0
>         Root Delay: 0.000000, Root dispersion: 0.000000, Reference-ID:
> (unspec)
>           Reference Timestamp:  0.000000000
>           Originator Timestamp: 0.000000000
>           Receive Timestamp:    0.000000000
>           Transmit Timestamp:   3691177073.000000000 (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
>             Originator - Receive Timestamp:  0.000000000
>             Originator - Transmit Timestamp: 3691177073.000000000
> (2016/12/19 22:57:53)
>
>
> On 2016-12-19 21:40, Roland Dobbins wrote:
>>
>> On 20 Dec 2016, at 2:22, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
>>
>>> If it is necessary i can investigate further.
>>
>>
>> Yes, please!
>>
>> -----------------------------------
>> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>
>
>