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

[Peter Betyounan]

Josh,

It's enough to test and simulate DDoS projected numbers and analyse the
data. Do you really think pushing 10gbits+ anywhere in Australia won't
raise a few alarm bells and cause havoc? I know no transit provider would
appreciate uncontrolled booter testing on their networks because someone
thought it was cool. Australian pipes are tiny in caparison to anywhere
else and any DDoS of that scale locally affects literally everyone who
traverses through it.



On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:

> 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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