[161867] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS "that almost broke the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Mar 27 17:33:35 2013
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:54:44 -0700
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
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