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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Ouch….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>We are actually being subject to a NTP DDOS right now… with about half the data coming over our WAIX link.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Most are iinet & internode end points, I’ll collect the IP’s and pass them on….. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sean K. Finn<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 February 2014 12:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] NTP Reflection coming in over Equinix IX<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hey All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I never thought I’d see the day, we’re seeing local NTP Reflection attacks come in across Equinix peering!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thankfully they are very small amounts of traffic but you can see the traffic jump percentage wise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><img width=596 height=210 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CF28BD.5D573500"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any mitigation stategies across the Equinix IX . (Apart from obvious, i.e. contacting the peer AS’s to asking them to nice mitigate at their end and pray, or droping prefix from Equinix completely.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS Anyone else on Equinix Syd if you’re smashing outbound on NTP please check <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is the first time we’ve seen reflection attack across peering!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I once considered safe harbour has now been compromised.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sean Finn,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oz Servers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#D0D3DD' align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:silver'>Premium Australian Hosting Solution Specialists</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#D0D3DD' align=center></span></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="96%" style='width:96.9%'><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Sean Finn, </span></b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>BInfTech(NetSys)Qld.UT</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Oz Servers</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br>e: <a href="mailto:sean.finn@ozservers.com.au"><span style='color:blue'>sean.finn@ozservers.com.au</span></a><br><b>w: <a href="http://www.ozservers.com.au/" title="http://www.ozservers.com.au/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ozservers.com.au</span></a></b><br><b>p: 1300 13 89 69</b></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><img border=0 width=140 height=70 id="Picture_x005f_x005f_x005f_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.gif@01CF28BD.5D573500" alt=ozlogo><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>