The sad part about this is that a simple rate-limit on ICMP traffic on a Linux NetFilter firewall could have kept each of these systems afloat.
:) For those of you administering firewalls, you might want to make sure you have a rate-limit for ICMP in your ruleset. This was a simple DDOS, and future ones could involve more sophisticated means, but this is elementary stuff taken to a large scale.
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