Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a severe and growing problem throughout the R&E Community. The impacts on time sensitive research can be major and DDoS can often be used to mask other malicious attacks. GÉANT has implemented a range of services to help NRENs and the wider community mitigate against DDoS. By delivering such services centrally across the GÉANT backbone it is possible to leverage the skills, expertise and facilities of GÉANT.
To help NRENs and their users, GÉANT has implemented two key technologies
For more information on Firewall on Demand, download the FoD userguide.
Firewall on Demand User Guide.pdf
Remote Triggered Blackholing (RTBH) is a mechanism used mainly to defend against D(D)oS. Although quite coarse and much less sophisticated than the Firewall on Demand as it completely isolates a host, it can be effective in case of D(D)oS.
For the moment GÉANT accepts and blackholes IPs with masks (/32, /128) when these are tagged with the community 20965:0008.
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GÉANT Operations Centre
Day-to-day management of the GÉANT network is handled by the Operations Centre (GÉANT OC)
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