[HN Gopher] Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS...
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       Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack
        
       Author : beefman
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2024-10-03 17:50 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (blog.cloudflare.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.cloudflare.com)
        
       | cedws wrote:
       | 65 second attack? Very suspicious. This attack must have had some
       | very specific goal.
        
         | blakesterz wrote:
         | That is weirdly short. Maybe just a test? Someone proving they
         | could do it as part of a threat? Someone accidently pressed the
         | "Go" button accidently? Someone showing off?
        
         | gomerspiles wrote:
         | Why keep running an attack that didn't even work? Every second
         | probably causes a loss of some bots up to a point..
        
       | theideaofcoffee wrote:
       | Enh. I try to be positive in my comments as much as I can.
       | Whenever the subject of DDoS mitigation by cloudflare comes up,
       | and it seems like they're always tooting their own horn, I
       | struggle to be impressed. By their own info, they have
       | approximately 330 global locations [0]. 3800Gbps divided roughly
       | (remember, anycast, and if their upstreams are well mixed,
       | they're going to see pretty consistent splitting) equally across
       | 330 locations is 'only' ~11.5 Gbps each location. I'm guessing
       | within each PoP is more than a handful of machines dedicated to
       | DDoS mitigation. So sure, they're doing computation on each bit
       | of all of that, but it still doesn't seem all that significant.
       | Toss half a cabinet at mitigation and continue on with your day.
       | These capabilities are available at such commodity prices
       | nowadays it's hardly worth the effort of a full page blog post.
       | 
       | And ok, I'll give some leeway in those numbers looking at the map
       | on the linked page, 35% or so of source traffic is clustered over
       | five countries so that distribution skews and some pops around
       | those source countries are going to be hit harder than others.
       | Still, maybe add an order of magnitude and I'll be a little less
       | dismissive.
       | 
       | [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/network/
        
         | dewey wrote:
         | > and it seems like they're always tooting their own horn
         | 
         | It's called marketing.
        
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