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I'd definitely say it's the latter. The non-PR version of the blog post is that they buy transit and peer at public exchanges out of many locations. Just like e
by hhw 14y ago
I'd definitely say it's the latter. The non-PR version of the blog post is that they buy transit and peer at public exchanges out of many locations. Just like every other CDN.
I cannot find a single action mentioned in the entire post of something that CloudFlare actually did to help mitigate the attack. Basically, it seems that the Internet network community at large scrambled to deal with the problems, and CloudFlare is taking credit for it.
- TranceMan 14y agoBasically, it seems that the Internet network community at large scrambled to deal with the problems, and CloudFlare is taking credit for it. This is true - if the Internet network community didn't identify this issue and see how they could mitigate it Cloudflare would have been toast. And now this blog post is number 1 on Hacker News...
- robryan 14y agoThey mitigated the attack against the site itself, forcing the attackers to move up the chain and try and target networks that connect to cloud flare. They also worked with these exchanges to mitigate the attack at that level. What more could they do?