basically, SpamHaus are getting hammered, and because their verification is so important there are knock-ons elsewhere
There are knock-ons, but they are not as internet destroying as the media implies.
As a Spamhaus customer, I can tell you that our one minute feed has only failed to be accessible for 320 of the minutes between the 16th of March and today. Furthermore, those 320 minutes were not consecutive but very much spread out once their countermeasures kicked in swiftly.
So that's what.... less than 2% downtime on the feed. Some top network engineers there I'd say !
If that's the impact I saw as a direct customer, then the impact on the rest of the "internet" would have been somewhat negligible.
What people might have noticed is some providers temporarily re-routing non-essential traffic away from LINX over less preferable secondary routes for very short periods of time. But I don't call that breaking the internet. Infact, here's a graph from my non-Spamhaus internet monitoring the load time of the Bloomberg website
As you can see, apart from 5 or 10 minutes somewhere between 17:00 and 18:00 on the 23rd of March, there is nothing of note, and for all I know, that spike could even be something completely unrelated causing their site to load slower.
Nothing to report (pun intended !) for the BBC either ....
