Re: DDoS attacks

Jon O. writes:

There is quite a bit of helplessness and inaction going on when it comes to these types of situations and BIG ISP can get away with whatever they want.

Sooner or later, this is going to end up in civil litigation, and unfortunate as that will be, it may help throttle these attacks a bit. When a small ISP is taken down for days at a time due to a DDoS attack, and a significant portion of the attack comes from one big ISP, and the big ISP is unwilling to take any action to slow or stop the attack, the small ISP has a credible claim for damages against the big ISP. If a pattern of gross negligence could be shown, punitive damages could potentially be a multiple of actual damages. Jim Shankland