DDOSes on DDOS protection firms like CloudFlare or Prolexic happen all the time. But not everyone is good at turning an outage into some great PR.
Thomas
On 28 Mar 2013, at 09:02, Mattia Rossi mattia.rossi.mailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
Reports here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636
And some technical details from Cloudflare:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-offline-and-ho http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet
And here a tool to check whether you are running an open DNS resolver.. If you're an ISP, you might want your customers to run it..
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tools/dnscheck.html
Cheers,
Mat
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