ddos attacks

[surfer at mauigateway.com (Scott Weeks)]

--- cb.list6 at gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 19, 2013 4:25 PM, "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins at arbor.net> wrote:
On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:12 AM, cb.list6 <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I am strongly considering having my upstreams to simply 
> > rate limit ipv4 UDP.
>
> QoS is a very poor mechanism for remediating DDoS attacks.  
> It ensures that programmatically-generated attack traffic 
> will 'squeeze out' legitimate traffic.

I agree. But ... i am pretty sure i am going to do it. Trade offs.
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If you don't mind, after your first legit attack reply back to 
this thread with the details, so others can learn from it when
they're looking through the archives.

scott