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From: "Stephen Wilcox" <steve.wilcox@ixreach.com>
I'm also not convinced BCP38 will make the issue go away, it only takes a small number of ISPs to either not be implementing it or accidentally stop filtering and modern server and home broadband connection speeds are fast enough that a handful of bots can generate very large amounts of traffic. I think ISPs and upstreams need to be more proactive in identifying open NTP servers in their customers networks.
Sure, but at least a server which is being used to bank off of, but for some reason cannot immediately fix things the right way, will be helped by -38, since source packets will have *real* filterable addresses. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274