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> â??For the short term, we will be using BGP communities to attempt to
> block Asia Pacific, the Middle East, South America, and others,
> hopefully leaving us only with traffic from North America and Western
> Europe."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/linode_back_at_last_after_ten_days_of_hell/

I would take an un-educted guess that this WAS the purpose of the
attack. Shutting the rest of the world's service off and isolating North
America as a practice drill.

Ps. North Korea successfully detonated a Hydrogen Bomb yesterday.

-- 
RR

"You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around
with mine until it worked..."


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