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Old 04-07-2010, 01:34 PM
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Wouldn't you just get the IP(s) of a zombie computer? Gonna go attack some innocents?
In this case probably not, I'd wager that it was a few people with personal issues. Botnet or not I'd imagine they could at least rate limit UDP to some acceptable level either at the core/dist switch of the colo or the trunk/vlan where the stuff is hosted from, a fairly standard practice in routing and switching.

Most co-location providers will cooperate with you on this if you have packet traces and a list of offenders.

According to Rogean most of the abuse traffic is UDP which makes it tricky, otherwise you could just dedicate a cheap machine to proxy your TCP connections for you, discarding illegitimate traffic.
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