[161906] in North American Network Operators' Group
So how big was it *really*?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis Kletnieks)
Thu Mar 28 09:23:58 2013
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:23:02 -0400
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So we all have heard the breathless news reports of how the recent
urinating contest between Spamhaus and a butthurt ISP was the "biggest
in history".
Where would you guys put it, if measured as "percent of total worldwide
available Internet bandwidth/resources"? My gut feeling is that by that
metric, it didn't even make the top 20. Think back to the Morris worm, or
Blaster/Nachi/etc - *nobody* had any free bandwidth when those happened. And
even if you restrict the discussion to intentional targeted attacks, I'm sure
we've had worse (Smurf, anybody? :)
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