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That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
- breadbox 14y agoDup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452434 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5452434
- nikatwork 14y agoThe CloudFlare blog entry had a linkbait title, but the Gizmodo journo missed the point of the content (or bluntly, did not bother reading it at all). This is what I took away from the CF post: 1. The attack on SpamHaus "wouldn't cause a network-wide outage, but it could potentially cause regional problems." 2. The DDoSers were attacking IXes, which is apparently unusual 3. The attack had the potential to take out an IX, which would break the regional internet 4. The source of attack was "open DNS recursors" which have the potential to be leveraged to much greater effect, increasing the likeliness of (3). Yeah, the CF blog entry should have been called "The DDoS That Almost Broke the European Internet". But the Gizmodo journo one-upped the linkbaiting by frothily screaming "LIAR" without bothering to read the meat of the content.