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16<h3>Access Control Commands and Options</h3>
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30<h4>Commands and Options</h4>
31<p>Unless noted otherwise, further information about these ccommands is on
32the <a href="accopt.html">Access Control Support</a> page.</p>
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34  <dt id="discard"><tt>discard [ average <i>avg</i> ][ minimum <i>min</i> ]
35      [ monitor <i>prob</i> ]</tt></dt>
36  <dd>Set the parameters of the rate control facility which protects the
37    server from client abuse. If the <tt>limited</tt> flag is present in the
38    ACL, packets that violate these limits are discarded. If, in addition,
39    the <tt>kod</tt> flag is present, a kiss-o'-death packet is
40    returned. See the <a href="rate.html">Rate Management</a> page for
41    further information. The options are:
42    <dl>
43      <dt><tt>average <i>avg</i></tt></dt>
44      <dd>Specify the minimum average interpacket spacing (minimum average
45        headway time) in log<sub>2</sub> s with default 3.</dd>
46      <dt><tt>minimum <i>min</i></tt></dt>
47      <dd>Specify the minimum interpacket spacing (guard time) in seconds
48	with default 2.</dd>
49      <dt><tt>monitor</tt></dt>
50      <dd>Specify the probability of being recorded for packets that
51	overflow the MRU list size limit set by <tt>mru maxmem</tt>
52	or <tt>mru maxdepth</tt>. This is a performance optimization for
53	servers with aggregate arrivals of 1000 packets per second or
54	more.</dd>
55    </dl>
56  </dd>
57  <dt id="restrict"><tt>restrict [-4 | -6] default [ippeerlimit <i>num</i>]
58      [<i>flag</i>][...]<br>  restrict source [ippeerlimit <i>num</i>]
59      [<i>flag</i>][...]<br>  restrict <i>address</i> [mask <i>mask</i>]
60      [ippeerlimit <i>num</i>] [<i>flag</i>][...]</tt></dt>
61  <dd>The <tt><i>address</i></tt> argument expressed in IPv4 or IPv6 numeric
62    address form is the address of a host or network. Alternatively,
63    the <tt><i>address</i></tt> argument can be a valid host DNS
64    name. The <tt><i>mask</i></tt> argument expressed in IPv4 or IPv6
65    numeric address form defaults to all mask bits on, meaning that
66    the <tt><i>address</i></tt> is treated as the address of an individual
67    host. A default entry (address 0.0.0.0, mask 0.0.0.0 for IPv4 and
68    address :: mask :: for IPv6) is always the first entry in the
69    list. <tt>restrict default</tt>, with no mask option, modifies both IPv4
70    and IPv6 default entries. <tt>restrict source</tt> configures a template
71    restriction automatically added at runtime for each association, whether
72    configured, ephemeral, or preemptible, and removed when the association
73    is demobilized.</dd>
74  <dd>The optional <tt>ippeerlimit</tt> takes a numeric argument that
75    indicates how many incoming (at present) peer requests will be permitted
76    for each IP, regardless of whether or not the request comes from an
77    authenticated source.  A value of -1 means "unlimited", which is the
78    current default.  A value of 0 means "none".  Ordinarily one would
79    expect at most 1 of these sessions to exist per IP, however if the
80    remote side is operating thru a proxy there would be one association for
81    each remote peer at that IP.</dd>
82  <dd>Some flags have the effect to deny service, some have the effect to
83    enable service and some are conditioned by other flags. The flags are
84    not orthogonal, in that more restrictive flags will often make less
85    restrictive ones redundant. The flags that deny service are classed in
86    two categories, those that restrict time service and those that restrict
87    informational queries and attempts to do run-time reconfiguration of the
88    server. One or more of the following flags may be specified:</dd>
89  <dd>
90    <dl>
91      <dt><tt>flake</tt></dt>
92      <dd>Discard received NTP packets with probability 0.1; that is, on
93	average drop one packet in ten. This is for testing and
94	amusement. The name comes from Bob Braden's <i>flakeway</i>, which
95	once did a similar thing for early Internet testing.</dd>
96      <dt><tt>ignore</tt></dt>
97      <dd>Deny packets of all kinds, including <tt>ntpq</tt>
98	and <tt>ntpdc</tt> queries.</dd>
99      <dt><tt>kod</tt></dt>
100      <dd>Send a kiss-o'-death (KoD) packet if the <tt>limited</tt> flag is
101	present and a packet violates the rate limits established by
102	the <tt>discard</tt> command. KoD packets are themselves rate
103	limited for each source address separately. If the <tt>kod</tt> flag
104	is used in a restriction which does not have the <tt>limited</tt>
105	flag, no KoD responses will result.</dd>
106      <dt id="limited"><tt>limited</tt></dt>
107      <dd>Deny time service if the packet violates the rate limits
108	established by the <tt>discard</tt> command. This does not apply
109	to <tt>ntpq</tt> and <tt>ntpdc</tt> queries.</dd>
110      <dt><tt>lowpriotrap</tt></dt>
111      <dd>Declare traps set by matching hosts to be low priority. The number
112	of traps a server can maintain is limited (the current limit is
113	3). Traps are usually assigned on a first come, first served basis,
114	with later trap requestors being denied service. This flag modifies
115	the assignment algorithm by allowing low priority traps to be
116	overridden by later requests for normal priority traps.</dd>
117      <dt><tt>mssntp</tt></dt>
118      <dd>Enable Microsoft Windows MS-SNTP authentication using Active
119	Directory services. <span class="style1"><b>Note: Potential users
120	should be aware that these services involve a TCP connection to
121	another process that could potentially block, denying services to
122	other users. Therefore, this flag should be used only for a
123	dedicated server with no clients other than MS-SNTP.</b></span></dd>
124      <dt><tt>noepeer</tt></dt>
125      <dd>Deny packets that would mobilize an ephemeral peering association,
126	even if authenticated.</dd>
127      <dt><tt>nomodify</tt></dt>
128      <dd>Deny <tt>ntpq</tt> and <tt>ntpdc</tt> queries which attempt to
129	modify the state of the server (i.e., run time
130	reconfiguration). Queries which return information are
131	permitted.</dd>
132      <dt><tt>noquery</tt></dt>
133      <dd>Deny <tt>ntpq</tt> and <tt>ntpdc</tt> queries. Time service is not
134	affected.</dd>
135      <dt><tt>nopeer</tt></dt>
136      <dd>Deny packets that might mobilize an association unless
137	authenticated. This includes broadcast, symmetric-active and
138	manycast server packets when a configured association does not
139	exist. It also includes <tt>pool</tt> associations, so if you want
140	to use servers from a <tt>pool</tt> directive and also want to
141	use <tt>nopeer</tt> by default, you'll want a <tt>"restrict source
142	..."</tt> line as well that does <i>not</i> include
143	the <tt>nopeer</tt> directive.  Note that this flag does not apply
144	to packets that do not attempt to mobilize an association. </dd>
145      <dt><tt>noserve</tt></dt>
146      <dd>Deny all packets except <tt>ntpq</tt> and <tt>ntpdc</tt>
147	queries.</dd>
148      <dt><tt>notrap</tt></dt>
149      <dd>Decline to provide mode 6 control message trap service to matching
150	hosts. The trap service is a subsystem of the <tt>ntpdc</tt> control
151	message protocol which is intended for use by remote event logging
152	programs.</dd>
153      <dt><tt>notrust</tt></dt>
154      <dd>Deny packets that are not cryptographically authenticated. Note
155	carefully how this flag interacts with the <tt>auth</tt> option of
156	the <tt>enable</tt> and <tt>disable</tt> commands. If <tt>auth</tt>
157	is enabled, which is the default, authentication is required for all
158	packets that might mobilize an association. If <tt>auth</tt> is
159	disabled, but the <tt>notrust</tt> flag is not present, an
160	association can be mobilized whether or not
161	authenticated. If <tt>auth</tt> is disabled, but
162	the <tt>notrust</tt> flag is present, authentication is required
163	only for the specified address/mask range. </dd>
164      <dt><tt>ntpport</tt></dt>
165      <dd>This is actually a match algorithm modifier, rather than a
166        restriction flag. Its presence causes the restriction entry to be
167        matched only if the source port in the packet is the standard NTP
168        UDP port (123). A restrict line containing <tt>ntpport</tt> is
169        considered more specific than one with the same address and mask,
170        but lacking <tt>ntpport</tt>.</dd>
171      <dt><tt>version</tt></dt>
172      <dd>Deny packets that do not match the current NTP version.</dd>
173    </dl>
174  </dd>
175  <dd>Default restriction list entries with the flags <tt>ignore,
176      ntpport</tt>, for each of the local host's interface addresses are
177      inserted into the table at startup to prevent the server from
178      attempting to synchronize to its own time. A default entry is also
179      always present, though if it is otherwise unconfigured; no flags are
180      associated with the default entry (i.e., everything besides your own
181      NTP server is unrestricted).</dd>
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