News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart. Parent comment

Re:When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart by rasz_pl on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:55AM (#13730705)
He described system that would work the other way around, null-route the ATTACKERS, not the victim.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart by krackers on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:02AM (#13731225)
Isn't that hard to do based on the distributed nature of DDOS attacks though?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart by makerbraker on Saturday February 25, 2017 @06:41AM (#13731149)
That's not quite how routing works -- null routing the attackers affects RETURN traffic to the attackers. By then, the damage is done, the target host is already overwhelmed with attack traffic.
[ Parent | on HN ]