[AusNOG] DDoS attack sizes

[Bob Woolley]

Given that DDoS's have been observed at 100's of Gigabits, and also the
ridiculous availability of "tools" which can generate 10's of Gigabits of
"test traffic" any day of the week, buying more transit will never really
beat the curve.

-Bob W

On 8 February 2016 at 15:42, Nick Evendor <nickevendor at outlook.com> wrote:

> Yesterday we experienced an 850 megabit DDoS attack towards a hosting
> customer which almost filled our gigabit uplink and made our upstream
> provider call me on a Sunday due to abnormal traffic on our port.
>
> Thank god it was Sunday so our network was underutilized with no
> collateral damage and everything remained working, but I asked the upstream
> provider what we can do about it other than null routing the destination
> and they said purchase more capacity.
>
> In the past we have seen a few attacks but they have only been a few
> hundred megabits and never come close to saturating our gigabit uplink.
>
> What size attacks are people seeing and is it time to over purchase
> bandwidth and move to a ten gigabit service.
>
> Nick
>
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