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Subject: RE: NTP
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[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org] On Behalf Of Antony Stone
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:07 AM
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Subject: Re: NTP

On Friday 02 July 2004 5:28 pm, Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN wrote:

> do not i repeat...do not allow inbound ntp with a source port above 
> the root ports.

Why not?   What difference does the client's source port make?

Antony.

Yes - I'm quite curious about this too as the protocol "normally" acts as
follows:
Client > 1023 -> Server 123
Server 123 -> Client > 1023
Server 123 -> Server 123