Spamhaus is the victim of the record largest DDoS attack in internet history - 300 gigabits/second
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I haven't noticed any slow down at all today, if anything it's a bit faster than usual.
[QUOTE=eddy-tt-;40059040][img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Reag_1364430333.jpg[/img]
Looks like they are getting some backlash or just can't handle the popularity boost, also their site looks like its from 2005 when it does load.[/QUOTE]
Oh my god, it's fucking horrendous.
300 Gigabits really isn't that much, atleast not on a global scale.
Would this affect game servers etc? Cause 2 CS GO servers had high ping but after restarting, the pings settled down so might of been the hosting company? and my mumble server on a different host had like 500 ms as well last night
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;40059231]300 Gigabits really isn't that much, atleast not on a global scale.[/QUOTE]
This post is very informative and useful for the situation at hand.
It's like having a pipe leakage of 10 m³ of water in your house and some dude walks up to you and says
"dude, 10 m³ is really not a lot compared to the Pacific Ocean"
[QUOTE=Mr Anonymous;40058706]I got DDoS'd at home once, and it fried my router. I don't know how, but after the attack, the router would no longer work.[/QUOTE]
Should've watercooled your router.
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[QUOTE=Killuah;40059252]This post is very informative and useful for the situation at hand.
It's like having a pipe leakage of 10 m³ of water in your house and some dude walks up to you and says
"dude, 10 m³ is really not a lot compared to the Pacific Ocean"[/QUOTE]
It doesn't have to be useful the problems already been fixed.
and it was mainly to the people going "Holy shit!"
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;40059363]It doesn't have to be useful the problems already been fixed.
and it was mainly to the people going "Holy shit!"[/QUOTE]
300 GBit isn't exactly nothing. Hetzner's datacenters which easily hold more than 30,000 servers holds a total capacity of 420 GBit in their backbone.
Considering that would almost entirely saturate it, I'd say 300 GBit is quite a bit.
[QUOTE=Fuxed;40058814]Let's see, increased load on the main chipset, that's an increased net draw of power. That increased power draw? That manifests as heat/thermal dissipation and exactly how many home routers do you see with active cooling? Not many! So yeah, right. Unless you're off in cloud-cuckoo-superconducting-consumer-goods-land. In which case, send some our way![/QUOTE]
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[quote]When you are the target of a DDoS attack, you don’t lose your connection to the internet because your hardware (router/modem) fails. You lose connection because you are using the maximum amount of bandwidth your ISP allocates for you. If your download speed is 25 Mbps and your attacker is targeting you with 100 Mbps worth of traffic, you are not actually receiving all of that traffic, because your bandwidth is throttled to 25 Mbps. This is why DDoS attacks do not cause physical damage to residential hardware. If an attacker tells you that he will, “fry your router”, he’s either just saying that for the effect, or has no idea what he’s talking about.[/quote]
Brush up on your basic networking hardware knowledge, broskis.
[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;40059305]Should've watercooled your router.
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I.....
What?
[QUOTE=Profanwolf;40059466]300 GBit isn't exactly nothing. Hetzner's datacenters which easily hold more than 30,000 servers holds a total capacity of 420 GBit in their backbone.
Considering that would almost entirely saturate it, I'd say 300 GBit is quite a bit.[/QUOTE]
True but 300 Gigabits could easily be beaten, think of it this way 300 people with Google's fiber service participating in a DDoS.
I know it's not exactly the same but I can't imagine 300Gbps being the largest for long.
[QUOTE=leontodd;40058754]Is youtube affected in any way? Took 10 mins to load a 2 minute 1080p video on a 10Mbps network earlier.[/QUOTE]
Youtube is pretty powerful so I imagine it wouldn't be affected. Also, mine is working pretty fine.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;40059501]True but 300 Gigabits could easily be beaten, think of it this way 300 people with Google's fiber service participating in a DDoS.
I know it's not exactly the same but I can't imagine 300Gbps being the largest for long.[/QUOTE]
The thing is though, for something like 300 people doing that, all 300 people wouldn't be getting gbit speeds if they're even remotely in the same area.
[editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40059525]Youtube is pretty powerful so I imagine it wouldn't be affected. Also, mine is working pretty fine.[/QUOTE]
It's not the issue of Youtube itself being affected rather than the nodes connecting you and the servers that host Youtube being saturated.
[QUOTE=maurits150;40058753]DDoS attacks can put a lot of strain on hardware because they get to deal with huge amounts of data, kind of like a stress test. Considering that a home router is just a bare chip without any proper cooling, a DDoS attack can indeed fry it. Data center grade hardware however is used to the big load and are generally better cooled, so the chances of physically breaking them isn't as big.[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't any consumer grade router just shut down before it got too hot?
They're not designed for "stay on NO MATTER WHAT" situations like data centre hardware is so you'd think they'd just shut themselves down.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40059816]Wouldn't any consumer grade router just shut down before it got too hot?
They're not designed for "stay on NO MATTER WHAT" situations like data centre hardware is so you'd think they'd just shut themselves down.[/QUOTE]
They wouldn't get "too hot". No home connection has enough bandwidth to stretch the capabilities of a home router. This really is common sense, I don't know any home users with a connection larger than 35mpbs, and even that's a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Most home routers can handle 100mpbs or more.
[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40059525]Youtube is pretty powerful so I imagine it wouldn't be affected. Also, mine is working pretty fine.[/QUOTE]
YT probably isn't being directly affected at all, it's anything in between.
This is very far from the largest ddos attack.
[QUOTE=OldFusion;40059994]This is very far from the largest ddos attack.[/QUOTE]
Go on?
nah youtube wasnt affected. Google even helped spanhaus by giving them some of their resources/help to absorb the attack
[QUOTE=OldFusion;40059994]This is very far from the largest ddos attack.[/QUOTE]
[citation needed]
[editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
Cloudflare just put up another article: [url]http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet[/url]
[QUOTE=Aetna;40059828]They wouldn't get "too hot". No home connection has enough bandwidth to stretch the capabilities of a home router. This really is common sense, I don't know any home users with a connection larger than 35mpbs, and even that's a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Most home routers can handle 100mpbs or more.[/QUOTE]
Well, at most places in Sweden you can get gbit connections at home.
Hell, where I live I have 100mbit, and I can upgrade to a gbit connection if I want, granted it's probably not enough for everyone in my building to be using it at the same time, but as most people don't even use theirs, It's definitely there.
In fact, all student accomodations in Sweden provided by SSSB, come with a 100mbit connection by default.
Where does the 300 Gbps figure come from? The CF blog mentions ~75, nothing else.
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[QUOTE=demoguy08;40060962]Where does the 300 Gbps figure come from? The CF blog mentions ~75, nothing else.
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Note the date on that particular post.
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;40060307][editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
Cloudflare just put up another article: [url]http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet[/url][/QUOTE]
Aha! Thanks.
I was just about to scream at my IP for my net speed being so slow before reading this.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;40059231]300 Gigabits really isn't that much, atleast not on a global scale.[/QUOTE]
Not that much?
So most companies charge an overage. I looked up one random company and they charge $0.15 for each GB overage. 300 Gigabits is around 37 or something gigabytes.
And that is every second...
There are 86400 seconds in a day. So if they DDoS for an entire day, that is $483,840. That is per day... Can you imagine losing half a million dollars a day for something you don't control?
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;40059231]300 Gigabits really isn't that much, atleast not on a global scale.[/QUOTE]
getting hit in the head with a coconut isn't that bad when you consider how soft a tomato is
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40059816]Wouldn't any consumer grade router just shut down before it got too hot?
They're not designed for "stay on NO MATTER WHAT" situations like data centre hardware is so you'd think they'd just shut themselves down.[/QUOTE]
When the main chipset overheats the router normally crashes and either hangs until you reboot it or it reboots itself. I've owned routers that were unusable for ten minutes at a time because until they cooled down they couldn't even roboot.
Some of the DD-WRT running WRT54G's have a problem where when you either clock them too high or they get way too hot they corrupt their flash memory and brick themselves. A heatsink helps prevent this.
The more expensive dedicated or business routers however have DDos protection built into the firmware.
[QUOTE=areolop;40058564]Confirmed affecting porn sites.[/QUOTE]
...I too can confirm this.
youtube buffers so slowly for me, even for 480p
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