[161915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So how big was it *really*?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Mar 28 10:14:53 2013
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
To: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:14:26 +0000
In-Reply-To: <39905.1364476982@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Surely the question is what was the impact?
If I had just installed 3 new 100G iinks the day before then its going to
be a lot bigger than if I didn't haven them.
In my view this was a minor blip, but very well sniper rifled at
Cloudflare - they have a lot of pissed off customers looking the blog they
have.=20
Folks need to fix there infrastructure so this doesn't happen though.
On 28/03/2013 13:23, "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> 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? :)
>