On 03/31/2013 10:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 130331 walt wrote: >> Any of you admin types out there have any grumpy thoughts about this ? >> http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet > > There was a good story in 'Guardian' : > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/29/cyberwar-spun-shoddy-journalism >
The Gizmodo article that Guardian article lauds irritated the hell out of me. Certainly it was unlikely for the global Internet to collapse. However, from the details I've read, there was a risk of one or two IXs failing, and that would have *serious* regional effects. Whether a chunk of Europe dropping offline qualifies as "breaking the Internet" is an interesting question. The answer probably depends on whether or not you're on that continent...
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