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

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

As cyberbunker stops killing spamhaus and goes after Gilmore.. I think
these are the guys who used to colo HavenCo after they burnt their
platform down? I'm not sure how I feel about Cloudflare comparing being
packeted to a nuclear bomb? After the packeting drys up, is there really
total devastation? Seems to me it would better to compare it to something
like a giant traffic jam
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110_traffic_jam) not
miles of land completely wiped out with zero hope of salvage? Unless cisco
has implemented a mechanism to melt a router when the traffic exceeds
100gbps? ;)

On 3/27/13 12:22 PM, "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Warren Bailey
> <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:
> > Is someone pissed off at Spamhaus, or was the intention to packet them
> > so
> > hard their entire network ceased to exist so they can no longer offer
> > DROP/RBL/xyz service?
>
> According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the
> bad guy.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becom
> es-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
>
> -Bill