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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Subject: Re: Semi-urgent: Disable NTP replies?
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> I didn't realize it until today, but the games people are out there
> playing nowadays with respect to NTP are now DRASTICALLY affecting me,
> so much so that essentially 100% of my outbound bandwidth was being
> used up just in sending out NTP reply packets... something that I
> had never even intended to do in the first place!

Please join the freebsd-security mailing list.  There was an 
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