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Re:Understanding and mitigating NTP-based DDoS attacks by gwu78 on Friday January 10, 2014 @10:16AM (#7036958)
"The request packet is 234 bytes long. The response is 10 packets... toalling 4,460 bytes."

What is the size of a TAICLOCK response? (TAICLOCK is a more precise NTP alterative.)

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Re:Understanding and mitigating NTP-based DDoS attacks by erichocean on Friday January 10, 2014 @08:39PM (#7041041)
Between 20 and 256 bytes. The packet received is modified and sent back, so there is no amplification.
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