RFC 3882 · INFORMATIONAL · 2004

Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks

Overview

RFC 3882, “Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks”, is an Informational document published in October 2004 by D. Turk. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes an operational technique that uses BGP communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular destination network to block denial-of-service attacks. Black-holing can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-speaking routers in the network. The document also describes a sinkhole tunnel technique using BGP communities and tunnels to pull traffic into a sinkhole router for analysis. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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