You can get a dedicated server for $80 with a 1Gbps connection to the Internet without looking that hard. It is pretty easy/cheap to kill a 1Gbps connection now a days. Soon several providers will begin offering dedicated servers with a 10Gbps connection to a single machine. -Drew -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Lyon [mailto:jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:42 AM To: Jack Bates Cc: North American Operators' Group Subject: Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet? < 1 Gbps attacks used to be standard issue but as of the past 90 days we have been seeing 2 - 8 Gbps a lot more frequently. Jeff On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net> wrote:
On 12/8/2010 10:28 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
Application-layer attacks aside, most packet-flooding attacks these days don't completely fill links, as there's no need for the attacker to do so.
I think the difference here is scale. packet-flooding attacks often do fill links; if the links drop to 155mb/s or below. I've seen some gig+ DOS, but that is less common. The DOS I posted a flow capture link for wasn't that large, but enough to flood out the little DS3 going to the small town where the target DSL customers was.
Jack
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