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


From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:22:59 -0400

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-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

-Bill


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