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

Wed Mar 27 19:29:14 UTC 2013

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 at herrin.us> wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Warren Bailey
><wbailey at 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
>