Peer means it considers the other side an equal and they will mutually skew time together. If you have peer on for devices you don't consider your time servers, you're opening yourself up to problems.
-Blake On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Pete Ashdown <pashd...@xmission.com> wrote: > On 2/17/14, 7:26 AM, George, Wes wrote: > > I'll note that this is less than 140 chars, and therefore fits nicely in > a > > tweet. > > > > If you're on twitter, Signal boost the PSA, please. > > > > My edited example: > https://twitter.com/wesgeorge/status/435404354242478080 > > > > Wes George > > > > > > > > On 2/16/14, 10:03 PM, "Kate Gerry" <k...@quadranet.com> wrote: > > > >> add these to your ntp.conf > >> restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery > >> restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery > > I seem to recall some issue with older Windows clients using peer for > synchronization. Does not having "nopeer" contribute to DDoS > amplification? > > >
