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> I cannot imagine NTP responses being much bigger than two or three times their related request.

I think you must be limiting your imagination to ntp requests related to setting the time. There are a lot of other commands in the protocol used for management and metrics. The `monlist` command was good for 200x amplification. https://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp...

parent dfc 2 years ago

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