Web sites go down. Circuits fail. Network engineers goof router configs. And few of these outages ever make the nightly news…
But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all Internet traffic, people notice. Network engineers around the world frantically email traceroutes to mailing lists. IRC channels fill [...]
Last week at RIPE 58 in Amsterdam I had to opportunity to present some content in the routing working group on work I’ve been doing with a past colleague of mine, Shane Amante (Level 3 Communications), and some of the routing research folks at UCLA. The slides I presented are available here (pdf) and I [...]
Over the last couple months we’ve observed a discernible uptick in DDoS attack activity and effectiveness, namely across two vectors; scale and virulence. The scale bit is easier to qualify and quantify than the virulence bit, as the hostility of a given attack is usually best qualified by the impact on the target, not some [...]
