It seems someone actively tried to take over NTP (on IPv6) in the Philippines!

A great write up by an amazing team that work tirelessly behind the scenes.

https://community.ntppool.org/t/dns-configuration-tampering-on-one-of-our-geodns-servers/4300

DNS configuration tampering on one of our GeoDNS servers

DNS configuration tampering on one of our GeoDNS servers We found that a volunteer who provided hosting for one of our GeoDNS servers used their access to manipulate DNS zone weights for the NTP Pool service domain. The server has been secured and removed from the DNS NS-set. What happened One of our geodns servers (ntpmnl1, in Manila) was hosted on a VM provided by a volunteer. When we set up the server, we followed our standard process: full administrative control, firewall rules, locked down...

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