Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:07:40
Message-Id: 515A132E.3010303@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [way OT but interesting] Massive recent DDOS attack by walt
1 Am 01.04.2013 01:12, schrieb walt:
2 > Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this
3 > article? :) Is it really just marketing BS from cloudflare, or is it
4 > solid stuff?
5 >
6 > http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
7 >
8 >
9 >
10 well, it was bad for spamhaus and London's inet traffic was higher than
11 normal - and that was it. No danger, no slowdowns (apart from LINX)....
12 but the media made a huge fuss about it.
13
14 If it helps to take down spammer friendly hosters, it was worth it.