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		zo1 on Sept 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Akamai takes Brian Krebs’ site off its servers aft... Why not simply block traffic from the specific unknowing customer to the target? I.e. Allow all normal traffic from the customer to go through, except for the traffic that was identified as being part of a DDoS? Is it expensive for an ISP to do that type of intelligent/rule-based routing?

dharma1 on Sept 23, 2016 [–]

It would probably take too long to get the ISP to comply, and I suppose the targets keep changing with botnets

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