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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Wed Mar 27 18:00:41 2013

From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:53:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4548283.11234.1364409866426.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

that article is absolute rubbish. take with large pinch of salt, rockstar i=
n hamster outfit type nonsense.=20

$dayjob didn't lose any traffic during the period, some guys where affected=
 because of the lottery of being on the same switch as couldfare.

regards,
Neil.

On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:45, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
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> Yes: 120 gigabits/second, primarily of DNS amplification traffic.
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> Still think it's optional to implement BCP38 pervasively?
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> Cheers,
> -- jra
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