Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

Sun Aug 2 17:03:08 UTC 2015

On 2 Aug 2015, at 23:49, Mike Hammett wrote:

> If the core of the mission is local LAN play and your Internet 
> connection fills up

You're assuming the DDoS attack originates from outside the local 
network(s).  I was curious as to whether they'd seen any *internal* DDoS 
attacks.

And again, external bandwidth doesn't matter for externally-sourced DDoS 
attacks.  If the attacker wishes to do so, he'll completely overwhelm 
your transit bandwidth.

> .... who gives a shit? The games play on.

No, they don't, if they require a connection across the Internet to game 
servers for matchmaking/auth purposes, etc.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins at arbor.net>