Surely the question is what was the impact? If I had just installed 3 new 100G iinks the day before then its going to be a lot bigger than if I didn't haven them. In my view this was a minor blip, but very well sniper rifled at Cloudflare - they have a lot of pissed off customers looking the blog they have. Folks need to fix there infrastructure so this doesn't happen though. On 28/03/2013 13:23, "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
So we all have heard the breathless news reports of how the recent urinating contest between Spamhaus and a butthurt ISP was the "biggest in history".
Where would you guys put it, if measured as "percent of total worldwide available Internet bandwidth/resources"? My gut feeling is that by that metric, it didn't even make the top 20. Think back to the Morris worm, or Blaster/Nachi/etc - *nobody* had any free bandwidth when those happened. And even if you restrict the discussion to intentional targeted attacks, I'm sure we've had worse (Smurf, anybody? :)