Stopping them from directly hitting our routers has been the most difficult, because our routers have IPs on 1000+ /24's, which means RTBH can't work because no tier 1 will accept 1000+ null routes. The same is true when they attack our upstream provider's networks.

We've had a few false-starts, but we've finally gotten all of our datacenters dropping all traffic to these critical IPs at the edges. This should stop the most serious outages, so it's a big step.

As a happy linode user, your update is much appreciated.

I do feel a certain amount of loyalty to linode, as they've been an excellent service the past few years, and I see them battling to put out these fires.

I'm hoping as linode grows in size they can put in place more sophisticated measures to guard against this - DDoS is a problem everyone faces. Its tough, but when the dust settles, it could be an opportunity to innovate.

Stopping DDOS isn't so much about innovation as cost: it's metric tons of data thrown at points you control and don't which have to analyze and react to it somehow. That's assuming it doesn't straight-up fill the pipe where ignoring it changes nothing. Here's a case study showing how expensive DDOS mitigation can be for a smaller firm:

https://protonmail.com/blog/ddos-protection-guide/