[189224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST NTP servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Wed May 11 15:07:26 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 21:07:21 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20160511001750.GA6228@cmadams.net> (Chris Adams's message of
"Tue, 10 May 2016 19:17:50 -0500")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Chris Adams:
> First, out of the box, if you use the public pool servers (default
> config), you'll typically get 4 random (more or less) servers from the
> pool. There are a bunch, so Joe Random Hacker isn't going to have a
> high chance of guessing the servers your system is using.
A determined attacker will just run servers in the official pool.
