Definitely. Some ISPs may have enough capacity to soak up this traffic internationally, but not to carry it to Australia. <div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Joshua D'Alton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joshua@railgun.com.au" target="_blank">joshua@railgun.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nice writeup.<div><br></div><div>It seems they are focusing alot on the open resolver issue, but that is only half or 1/3rd of the coin. The other problem is people being able to send all these forged packets in the first place, and beyond that, have so many tcp connections.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are only a few ISPs globally outside of the tier1 and some tier2 that could handle such an attack, I think telstra (and subsequently all AU isps) would crumble easily under such an attack, and I might be wrong, please someone tell me I am, but we could be hit at any moment and with ramifications far above that of the Warnambool fire?<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Peter Adkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.adkins@kernelpicnic.net" target="_blank">peter.adkins@kernelpicnic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
There's an interesting write up on the matter on the CloudFlare blog at the moment - <a href="http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet" target="_blank">http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet</a><br>
<br>(The Massive Attack picture is a nice touch).<div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:29 AM, ComKal Networks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:admin@comkal.com.au" target="_blank">admin@comkal.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636</a>><br>
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The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Ian Manners<br>
ComKal Networks Australia<br>
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