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by justinlardinois 3529 days ago
> We began to see elevated bandwidth against our Managed DNS platform in the Asia Pacific, South America, Eastern Europe, and US-West regions that presented in a way typically associated with a DDoS attack. As we initiated our incident response protocols, the attack vector abruptly changed, honing in on our points of presence in the US-East region

Interesting. Much of the reporting on the day of suggested that the attack was felt exclusively in the United States, but this says otherwise.

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Sounds like someone found a way to target one server with all devices worldwide. Shouldn't that be impossible with Anycast? Or did they reveal an ip address that was just referring to US-EAST?