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Date:      Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:16:51 -0800
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>,  Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: UNS: Re: NTP security hole CVE-2013-5211?
Message-ID:  <52CF8243.7060906@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <21199.26019.698585.355699@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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On 1/9/14, 7:14 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:08:41 +0700, Eugene Grosbein
> <eugen@grosbein.net> said:
> 
>> Other than updating ntpd, you can filter out requests to
>> 'monlist' command with 'restrict ... noquery' option that
>> disables some queries for the internal ntpd status, including
>> 'monlist'.
> 
> For a "pure" client, I would suggest "restrict default ignore"
> ought to be the norm.  (Followed by entries to unrestrict localhost
> over v4 and v6.)

That would block clock synchronization too, unless one explicitly
unrestrict all NTP servers.  With pool.ntp.org, this is not really
practical.

The current default on head stable branches should work for most people.

Cheers,

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