Hello NANOG,

To minimize the impact of DDoS, I have setup RTBH.

For our own customers, we can set the RTBH community ourselves towards our transit suppliers and this works well.

For our BGP customers the problem is more complex. Our BGP customers can send us the RTBH community, and we will drop the traffic at our borders. Since we're only running a small network, we don't have the capacity to deal with large attacks. If we would be able to forward (and maybe alter it) this RTBH community towards our upstream providers, the impact on our network would be limited. However, the RFC states that an announcement tagged with the blackhole community should get the no_advertise or no_export community.

What is your opinion on this ?

Thanks in advance

Roel