[161853] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS "that almost broke the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Wed Mar 27 15:09:24 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:09:11 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4548283.11234.1364409866426.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Is someone pissed off at Spamhaus, or was the intention to packet them so
hard their entire network ceased to exist so they can no longer offer
DROP/RBL/xyz service?
Seldom do hax0r nations target things without some type of
"justification". I don't really care who is being internet murdered, I
care why.=20
It's probably the same people who have been posting news articles from
Ashworth's email.
On 3/27/13 11:44 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>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
>--=20
>Jay R. Ashworth Baylink
>jra@baylink.com
>Designer The Things I Think RFC
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>
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