Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#1

Post by sgehlich » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 10:49 PM UTC

Cloudflare confirms that a big DDoS is going on right now: https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys

There are a lot of people out there talking about the DDoS as well, some of them are talking about 400+ Gbps: https://twitter.com/search?q=ddos

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#2

Post by robbiet480 » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 11:00 PM UTC

Here at 1355 Market, the Twitter building, AboveNet is entirely down. They are claiming it's a main router issue. No ETOR.

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#3

Post by callesgg » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 11:11 PM UTC

We would people try to do a ddos on them. A ddos is a temporary thing. Only time it is worth it do do a ddos is when there is some kind of event thing.

Like if some one wants to get a site down today so people can't vote.

And cloudflare does not really have anything like that. Their customers yes, them no.

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#4

Post by sparrish » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 11:15 PM UTC

We're seeing an increase in 'down' notifications in general here at NodePing.

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#5

Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 11:27 PM UTC

I would kill for a Null Route REST API at peering points/network upstream providers.

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#6

Post by xxdesmus » Mon, Feb 10, 2014, 11:32 PM UTC

The attack directed at CloudFlare has been mitigated at this time. Performance should be back at normal levels now. https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys/status/433017584670093312

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#7

Post by leoplct » Tue, Feb 11, 2014, 12:05 AM UTC

It's not me! :)

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#8

Post by dewey » Tue, Feb 11, 2014, 12:08 AM UTC

And here I was wondering why my internet (Germany) was very unstable an hour ago.

Looks like it's related: https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys/status/432997463562022912

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#9

Post by verandaguy » Tue, Feb 11, 2014, 12:09 AM UTC

callesgg wrote: post #3

We would people try to do a ddos on them. A ddos is a temporary thing. Only time it is worth it do do a ddos is when there is some kind of event thing. Like if some one wants to get a site down today so people can't vote. And cloudflare does not really have anything like that. Their customers yes, them no.

They're a CDN for a sizeable chunk of the Internet. What do you think happens when you "temporarily" bring it to its knees?

Re: Large DDoS hitting CloudFlare

#10

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 11, 2014, 12:20 AM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #5

I would kill for a Null Route REST API at peering points/network upstream providers.

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