Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > article on the "first war in cyberspace" (russian attacks on estonia). > http://iht.com/articles/2007/05/28/business/cyberwar.php?page=2 > "The 10 largest assaults blasted streams of 90 megabits of data a second > at Estonia's networks, lasting up to 10 hours each. That is a data load > equivalent to downloading the entire Windows XP operating system every > six seconds for 10 hours."
It was quite heavy. One thing helped - the Estonian CERT had quite a lot of defenses and ddos mitigation already in place. And the RIPE meeting was being held in Tallinn when the DDoS started, which means that some of the best people in the world in routing and network security were on hand to help, at that time. That article quotes Danny McPherson for example, and Jose' Nazario -- Suresh Ramasubramanian | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg EDEDEFB9 email sturmbahnfuehrer | lower middle class unix sysadmin
