Hacker News: bandwidth

3.15 billion packet-per-second DDoS attack mitigated against Minecraft customer

bandwidth — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:58:16 +0000

Article URL: https://globalsecurelayer.com/blog/unprecedented-3-15-billion-packet-rate-ddos-attack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353890

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by bandwidth in "Meta outage"

bandwidth — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:29:49 +0000

Surplus load from Meta users flocking to other platforms

New comment by bandwidth in "Meta outage"

bandwidth — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:22:14 +0000

Surely the repeated logins can't be helping the situation. I suppose it is entirely auth related across all Meta products. The repeated strain could pose a cold start problem for example.

New comment by bandwidth in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

bandwidth — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:10:18 +0000

The other agenda is also pleasing shareholders and ensuring PR / damage control is mitigated at all costs.

Their stock price has been falling since Thursday after all.

New comment by bandwidth in "EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service"

bandwidth — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 21:21:11 +0000

Okay so all we need now is a few IoT toasters to send 25G of DDoS traffic right?

New comment by bandwidth in "Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers"

bandwidth — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:40:08 +0000

The VP of Rogers admits they have yet to identify the root cause:

https://twitter.com/PnPCBC/status/1545512971878662145

New comment by bandwidth in "Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022"

bandwidth — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 04:58:26 +0000

If you're okay with load balancing DNS queries across multiple providers you could do 2x Cloudflare primary NS, 2x GCP for example where each provider is in sync with each other.

If not, a manual swap at the registrar level would be good enough.

I should also mention this approach sort of breaks with Cloudflare's proxied records which dynamically assign anycast IPs for records placed on their CDN. So if using this approach the failover NS provider would probably need to also use a different CDN, preferably one that just gives you a CNAME.

New comment by bandwidth in "User reports indicate problems at Discord"

bandwidth — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:08:10 +0000

Could be a GCP outage but not widespread enough for them to report it.

Perhaps API gateway is facing issues.