Re: So how big was it *really*?

["Neil J. McRae" <neil () domino 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. 

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? :)