[AusNOG] NTP reflection used for world's largest DDoS

[Joshua D'Alton]

Though, 7 x 1Gbps full linerate servers with a provider who won't complain
about the usage would only cost about $2000AUD per month.

A lot of these larger more powerful attacks are a lot more clever than
simple mass botnet attacks, such is the arms race we're facing (and losing
mostly thanks to unpatched holes like OP).


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:

>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
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> > Or are the spoofed packets coming from bots and that bandwidth is spread
> across a lot of different pipes?
>
> Correct.
>
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