Panic Averted as Cloudflare mitigates the biggest DDOS attack in history.

Interesting stuff, this takes DDoS attacks to a new level. We used to deal with them regularly back in corporate days, but then it was normally a case of blocking selected IP's from perimeter firewalls and problem solved. But times have moved on, DNS is more flexible which looks like it can also be the problem.

I guess it will be lessons learned, and any recommendations for tighter protocols normally come out of attacks and exploits, which will be the way of the internet and computing in general.

But back to your question, good publicity for Cloudfire, but interesting the attack bypassed them once the attackers realised the approach wasn't working. But all major ISP's can deal with this, and the natural resilience of the net will unsure the network stays up. Just unlucky if your website happens to be on a server on an impacted segment.

Eventually, no doubt it will all be distributed load balanced websites (cloud) so in theory impact would be less as traffic would be rerouted to a resilient cloud network or partner, as your site pops up somewhere else.

For now though, quite happy with my physical servers and a decent back up