NTP

Related to the network time protocol.

NTP attack

/ dsdickinson / Leave a comment

Yep we got bit by this one. It brought our network to its knees. Fortunately the fix was easy. First, to stop the attack we turned off ntp temporarily:

service ntp stop

Then we added this to our /etc/ntp.conf file:

Disable monitor
Restrict -4 default kod notrap nomodify nopeer noquery

Then we started ntp:

service ntp start

The system returned to normal.