Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack proves pricey

Sat Sep 24 16:55:22 UTC 2016

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:

>
> > On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:47 AM, John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> Well...by anycast, I meant BGP anycast, spreading the "target"
> >>> geographically to a dozen or more well connected/peered origins.  At
> that
> >>> point, your ~600G DDoS might only be around
> >>
> >> anycast and tcp? the heck you say! :)
> >
> > People who've tried it say it works fine.
>
> It’s worked fine for 28 years, for me.
>
>
>

boy, it'd sure be nice if there were some 'science' and 'measurement'
behind such statements.
Didn't k-root do some anycast studies ~8-10 years back?

-chris
(note I'm totally a believer in anycast for tcp in the 'right'
circumstances, but often it feels like talking to climate-change-deniers
when proffering it as a solution)