Re:The DDoS that almost broke the Internet
by kfcm on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @10:56PM
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Cloudflare is crying: "the sky is falling". Gizmodo is taking the other extreme: "nothing to see here; move along".
The truth is in the middle.
There were repercussions in Denver/Colorado with a Tier 1 network provider, mainly in the form of greatly increased latency. This impacted downstream providers, as well as a couple of my clients in Colorado. I informed those clients yesterday my opinion was the issue was either a network engineering/backhoe issue, or there was a major concerted cyber attack targeting the Denver area.
The reality? There was an attack. It was measurable. It did have a noticeable impact. But it was far more annoying and irritating than the headline "Internet killed. Film at 11." would lead one to believe.
The truth is in the middle.
There were repercussions in Denver/Colorado with a Tier 1 network provider, mainly in the form of greatly increased latency. This impacted downstream providers, as well as a couple of my clients in Colorado. I informed those clients yesterday my opinion was the issue was either a network engineering/backhoe issue, or there was a major concerted cyber attack targeting the Denver area.
The reality? There was an attack. It was measurable. It did have a noticeable impact. But it was far more annoying and irritating than the headline "Internet killed. Film at 11." would lead one to believe.