tsturzl

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   by tsturzl 11y ago

   Out of the top 10 hosting companies, only the 3 largest ones could probably have sustained these attacks, and even those providers would like suffer at least minor outages. The problem wasn't lack of prevention, but scale of attack. Th
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   by tsturzl 11y ago

   I agree with this. They're service clearly doesn't include monitoring as a mention commodity, and the monitoring that they provide pro-bono isn't network monitoring. If you want to know that kind of thing, you should have the
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   by tsturzl 11y ago

   Linode has always been this way. They are not extremely open from a business standpoint, but from what I can see they are fairly transparent from a technical standpoint. They have released a statement about this outage, and past outages. Sm
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   by tsturzl 11y ago

   Still sticking with Linode. This is definitely not their fault. If anything I blame ISPs for letting it happen. ISP's could just simply filter traffic by filtering forged packets, then dropping traffic at a backbone would be trivial, m