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Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS "that almost broke the Internet"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Mar 27 14:44:36 2013

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:44:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet

Yes: 120 gigabits/second, primarily of DNS amplification traffic.

Still think it's optional to implement BCP38 pervasively?

Cheers,
-- jra
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