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