[161907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So how big was it *really*?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry Hoffman)
Thu Mar 28 09:29:17 2013
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:29:04 -0400
From: Harry Hoffman <hhoffman@ip-solutions.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <39905.1364476982@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
It's interesting, this just came up on gizmodo. As I said in another
forum, take it for what it's worth:
http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie
Cheers,
Harry
On 03/28/2013 09:23 AM, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> 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? :)
>