Comment by tw04
8 hours ago
It also completely overlooks the fact that some of the traffic has spoofed source IP addresses and a bad actor could use automated black holing to knock a legitimate site offline.
8 hours ago
It also completely overlooks the fact that some of the traffic has spoofed source IP addresses and a bad actor could use automated black holing to knock a legitimate site offline.
> a bad actor could use automated black holing to knock a legitimate site offline.
No, in my concept the host can only manage the traffic targeted at it and not at other hosts.
That already exists… that's part of cloudflare and other vendors mitigation strategy. There’s absolutely no chance ISPs are going to extend that functionality to random individuals on the internet.