[AusNOG] Network Stress Test Results - Frightening speeds of 900+ mbits

[Andrew Lau]

If you wanted to test in a controlled environment this may be more useful,
they even crunch the numbers for you https://www.blitz.io/

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net>wrote:

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> On Oct 18, 2013, at 3:31 PM, "Tom Paseka" <tom at cloudflare.com> wrote:
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> > There are hundreds of booters out there. We regularly see hits from
> 2mbps up to 10Gbps+ from various ones, using various methods (synfloods,
> dns reflections etc)
>
> Concur 100%, this is indeed a 'booter'.  It's likely a criminal
> enterprise; note that it's illegal in most jurisdictions to send attack
> traffic beyond the borders of one's own network, and that it also violates
> AUPs of most intermediate transit networks in the path.
>
> I strongly urge folks *not* to use services of this nature, because doing
> so is a) illegal, b) potentially very harmful, c) will attract the
> attention of miscreants towards both whoever pays and whoever is targeted,
> and d) funds criminals.
>
> There are legal, safe ways to test resilience to DDoS attacks; but using a
> service of this type isn't among them.
>
> ;>
>
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