"But we're up - they haven't been able to knock us down. Our engineers are doing an immense job in keeping it up - this sort of attack would take down pretty much anything else." --Steve Linford from the BBC article.
If Spamhaus' Linford is quoted accurately, he's kind of full of it. The NYT article gives more detail about CloudFlare's involvement.
CloudFlare protects the website, which has no bearing on Spamhaus' actual service which are run on their DNSBL servers in various networks around the world.
If Spamhaus' Linford is quoted accurately, he's kind of full of it. The NYT article gives more detail about CloudFlare's involvement.