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How could source IP spoofing help with DDoS mitigation?
by dec0dedab0de 9y ago
How could source IP spoofing help with DDoS mitigation?
- lima 9y agoThere are many scenarios where you send of traffic to another datacenter using a GRE tunnel or EVPN.
- hueving 9y agoThis particular case relied on botnets being able to spoof their their source IP to match github's so the memcached responses would go to github. Google 'DRDoS attacks' to learn more. They are responsible for most of the largest volume attacks IIUC.
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoI understand the attack, I dont understand how it could be mitigated using the same technique.