Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server
- ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers.
- The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of megabits-per-second.
- Subsequently, we have determined the sources of this flooding to be literally hundreds of thousands of real Internet hosts throughout the world.
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- ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers.
- The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of megabits-per-second.
- Subsequently, we have determined the sources of this flooding to be literally hundreds of thousands of real Internet hosts throughout the world.
Sources: Wisc