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Re:An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks by alexforster on Saturday January 02, 2016 @02:45PM (#10827571)
You may want to go pinging around some of your own tier 1 crossconnects. I bet you'll be surprised.
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Re:An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks by scurvy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @04:34PM (#10828065)
They all respond because I asked them for it. About half didn't upon turn up. It's super trivial for them to null route them or readdress in rfc 1918/4193 space.

Or are you referring to xconnects inside their network? That's up to them to work out and I've never seen a provider just abandon their network while under attack.

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Re:An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks by alexforster on Saturday January 02, 2016 @06:35PM (#10828586)
You may want to reconsider. CoPP only goes so far, as we've learned the hard way.
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Re:An update from Linode about the recent DDoS attacks by scurvy on Saturday January 02, 2016 @09:27PM (#10829218)
I don't run Cisco, but thanks for worrying about that. Also, stateless ACL's should protect against overrunning the control plane.
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