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Re: So how big was it *really*?


From: Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:57:53 -0700

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


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