[161856] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS "that almost broke the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Mar 27 15:24:47 2013
In-Reply-To: <CD789092.8539%wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:22:59 -0400
To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Warren Bailey
<wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
> 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?
According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the bad guy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
-Bill
