How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

> QOTD DDoS attack

> How it works: Abuses the Quote of the Day (QOTD) Protocol, which listens on UDP port 17 and responds with a short quote or message.

Does any reasonable operating system those days support this protocol? Sounds like "IP over Avian Carriers" to me.

Huh, this sounds kind of cool, I like the idea of there being a few QOTD servers dotted around the internet. Shame that the first I'm heading about it is it being abused to launch a DDOS.

You can always ssh to random hosts and read the netbanners.

Of course nearly all of them are a long paragraph or two of legal jargon that more or less boils down to "fuck off."

While not a random server in the internet, here is the start of the ssh banner on my router (before the legal "fuck off")

  _______              __           __              __
 |_     _|.-----.----.|  |--.-----.|__|.----.-----.|  |.-----.----.
   |   |  |  -__|  __||     |     ||  ||  __|  _  ||  ||  _  |   _|
   |___|  |_____|____||__|__|__|__||__||____|_____||__||_____|__|
                 N E X T   G E N E R A T I O N   G A T E W A Y
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 NG GATEWAY SIGNATURE DRINK
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  * 1 oz Vodka          Pour all ingredients into mixing
  * 1 oz Triple Sec     tin with ice, strain into glass.
  * 1 oz Orange juice
 --------------------------------------------------------------------

Including a cocktail recipe in the login banner has been a signature of OpenWRT for a long time. Looks like Technicolor came up with their own recipe for their OpenWRT distribution.