[161858] 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 15:31:53 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:29:14 +0000
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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As cyberbunker stops killing spamhaus and goes after Gilmore.. I think
these are the guys who used to colo HavenCo after they burnt their
platform down? I'm not sure how I feel about Cloudflare comparing being
packeted to a nuclear bomb? After the packeting drys up, is there really
total devastation? Seems to me it would better to compare it to something
like a giant traffic jam
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110_traffic_jam) not
miles of land completely wiped out with zero hope of salvage? Unless cisco
has implemented a mechanism to melt a router when the traffic exceeds
100gbps? ;)
On 3/27/13 12:22 PM, "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>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-becom
>es-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=3Dall&_r=3D0
>
>-Bill
>
