In traditional methods for DDoS mitigation, such as RTBH (remotely triggered blackhole), a BGP route is injected, advertising the IP address of the server under attack with a special community (666). This special community on the border routers sets the next hop to a...
While networks are agnostic to the content of the serviced packets, end users have a very good understanding of what traffic they have and what is the expected shape of well behaved traffic. It is increasingly useful to pass and make use of such information upstream...
