[161987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So how big was it *really*?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Sat Mar 30 17:58:03 2013
In-Reply-To: <1497934.11316.1364490629995.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:57:53 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Simon Lockhart" <simon@slimey.org>
>
>> And there's a (semi-)public response from one of Cloudfare's
>> upstreams:
>>
>> http://cluepon.net/ras/gizmodo
>
> Money quote:
>
> """
> so when 300 Gbps
> of NEW traffic suddenly shows up and all wants to go to ONE location,
> someone is going to have a bad day.
> """
I am *sooo* reminded of
http://xkcd.com/1133/
and
http://youwillnotgotospacetoday.tumblr.com/
'Your internet is having a bad day, and
your packets will not be going to their destination'
^_^;
Matt
