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Usually I wouldn't post a Cloudflare mitigates blah blah blah blog, but I thought this one was particularly interesting because of the range of addresses, an at
by neom 4y ago
Usually I wouldn't post a Cloudflare mitigates blah blah blah blog, but I thought this one was particularly interesting because of the range of addresses, an attack that large spawning from over 30,000 IPs is a pretty well orchestrated attack. The most I've read pervious was well under half that (granted I've been out of networking for a long time).
- kortilla 4y ago30k isn’t even noteworthy in size for botnets thanks to shitty iot stuff. Mirai attacked Dyn with 100k unique devices.
- nightfly 4y agoComma in odd place. Could be typo of 30,000 or 300,000. Written the same way in the article
- nbadg 4y agoFun fact: how many digits get lumped together in a digit grouping is not universal and varies between different languages and cultures globally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi...
- neom 4y agoI used to work on bizdev with a German group and it took me a long time to catch on: "The character used as the thousands separator In the United States, this character is a comma (,). In Germany, it is a period (.). Thus one thousand and twenty-five is displayed as 1,025 in the United States and 1.025 in Germany. In Sweden, the thousands separator is a space. The character used as the decimal separator In the United States, this character is a period (.). In Germany, it is a comma (,). Thus one thousand twenty-five and seven tenths is displayed as 1,025.7 in the United States and 1.025,7 in Germany."
- smoe 4y agoSwitzerland, where I'm from uses 1'023.7, often 1'023,7 in handwriting and at least in my region when spoken you also say comma. So it took my a while to parse as I become more and more exposed to number formats from surrounding countries and the US.
- boringg 4y agoEverything in this message thread sounds like an annoying data processing problem if you ever have to do numbers between countries. Regex rules aren't universal for the comma issues apparently.
- neom 4y agoFixed the comma, it's 30,000!
- neom 4y agoI think 30k 71m request per second http attack is pretty unique? Could certainly be wrong though!