I wonder if the source of the attack might be related to the massive DDOS that took out SoftLayer's DNS servers last Tuesday. A massive volume of mal-formed UDP packets (~500k/second) from a very large number of IPs managed to bring down a distributed anycast based DNS system for approximately 18 hours.
Seems odd to have two huge scale attacks launched within 10 days if they aren't somehow related (testing or proving out a botnet, etc...).
Seems odd to have two huge scale attacks launched within 10 days if they aren't somehow related (testing or proving out a botnet, etc...).