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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by Arnt on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:52PM (#28578762)
If your nontechnical neighbour's ISP calls and says "you're participating in a DDoS, will you please find out which device behind your NAT is sending the traffic and fix whatever the problem is", do you think your neighbour can fix it in five minutes?
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by edoceo on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:42PM (#28579138)
They could remote stop the router?
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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by tinus_hn on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:49PM (#28579181)
A responsible ISP will block the user but this means the user is going to call the helpdesk which costs money.

An irresponsible ISP will stall the process to see if you give up, which is free.

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Re:Belgian ISP under 250 Gbps DDoS for days on end by Arnt on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:04AM (#28583077)
They could, which mitigates the attack without locating the actual source (that is, your app) and leaves you free to use the same app again for another attack next week. Maybe even taking care to use a different subset of the devices where your app is installed.
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