On May 1, 2013, at 6:43 AM, Thomas St-Pierre wrote:

>  We've been sending emails to our clients but as the servers are not managed 
> by us, there's not much we can do at that level.

Sure, there is - shut them down if they don't comply.  Most ISPs have AUP 
verbiage which would apply to a situation of this type.

> Has anyone ever tried mitigating/rate-limiting/etc these attacks in the 
> network before? (vs at the server/application level)

QoS doesn't work, as the programmatically-generated attack traffic 'crowds out' 
legitimate requests.

> We have an Arbor peakflow device, but it's not really geared for this 
> scenario I find.

Peakflow SP is a NetFlow-based anomaly-detection system which performs attack 
detection/classification/traceback.  Please feel free to ping me offlist about 
additional system elements which perform attack mitigation.

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