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

[Joshua D'Alton]

Oh sure that would work from layer 7 perspective, probably, but I'm not
sure about the other attacks that involve a thousand - tens of thousands of
hosts to achieve the level of bandwidth. Or is AWS able to deliver 100mbps+
x50 nodes minimum?


On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Peter Betyounan <
peter at serversaustralia.com.au> wrote:

> Spin up a swarm of 50 or so EC2 instances and write a few lines of code.
> Press a button and sit back and watch. Many companies already do this the
> legal way, I am not too happy about advertising these methods to places
> like whirlpool which in turn is just empowering kids who think it's fun and
> cheap. Even if you educated one single person on what a booter is the
> damage is done already.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Can you elaborate?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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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