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Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe)
From: Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org>
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2023 19:40:40 +0000
In a nutshell, no. Refer to my prior cites for detailed explanations. For a list of real-world attack incidents, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#:~:text=NTP%20server%20misuse%20and%20abuse%20covers%20a%20number%20of%20practices,the%20NTP%20rules%20of%20engagement.> -mel On Aug 6, 2023, at 12:03 PM, Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com> wrote: Naively, instead of abstaining ;) ... isn't robust diversity of NTP peering a reasonable mitigation for this, as designed? Royce On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 10:21 AM Mel Beckman <mel () beckman org<mailto:mel () beckman org>> wrote: William, Due to flaws in the NTP protocol, a simple UDP filter is not enough. These flaws make it trivial to spoof NTP packets, and many firewalls have no specific protection against this. in one attack the malefactor simply fires a continuous stream of NTP packets with invalid time at your firewall. When your NTP client queries the spoofed server, the malicious packet is the one you likely receive. That’s just one attack vector. There are several others, and all have complex remediation. Why should people bother being exposed to the risk at all? Simply avoid Internet-routed NTP. there are many solutions, as I’ve already described. Having suffered through such attacks more than once, I can say from personal experience that you don’t want to risk it.
Current thread:
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe), (continued)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mark Tinka (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Chris Adams (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mark Tinka (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) William Herrin (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 05)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Niels Bakker (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) William Herrin (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Royce Williams (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Royce Williams (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) William Herrin (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Neil Hanlon (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Rubens Kuhl (Aug 06)
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- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Rubens Kuhl (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mark Andrews (Aug 06)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Rubens Kuhl (Aug 07)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Dorn Hetzel via NANOG (Aug 07)
- Re: NTP Sync Issue Across Tata (Europe) Mel Beckman (Aug 06)