Did you read the story? It was more about how this wa a notable attack (because the traffic volume and how that we attained), not because it was particularly bad for CloudFare:
> This allowed us to mitigate the attack without it affecting Spamhaus or any of our other customers. The attackers ceased their attack against the Spamhaus website four hours after it started.
Did you read the story? It was more about how this wa a notable attack (because the traffic volume and how that we attained), not because it was particularly bad for CloudFare:
Yes I did - and still Cloudflare can claim to be able to defend against these 'attacks'?
If they were being 'honest' they would come out and say they cannot defend themselves against the 'Internet'
Edit: This allowed us to mitigate the attack without it affecting Spamhaus or any of our other customers
So did the Internet slow down or break? Is this news?
CloudFare customers are all multicasted and better to survive DDOS attacks. If you were the unlucky router to receive dozens of gigabits per second of fake traffic you probably would have been boned.
> This allowed us to mitigate the attack without it affecting Spamhaus or any of our other customers. The attackers ceased their attack against the Spamhaus website four hours after it started.