this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
233 points (98.7% liked)

Technology

59612 readers
2863 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
233
Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
32 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah. In developped countries you can expect at least 400Mbps thanks to fiber connections

[–] Sheldan@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cannot confirm

[–] TrippaSnippa@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Cries in Australian

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s still 2.5k fully saturated 400mbps connections. As far as I know this kind of approach wouldn’t work since you’d easily block them - you need craploads of bots all around the world for this to not be defeated by a smart firewall.