Black Hole Routing
January 15, 2025
Black hole routing (or black hole filtering) is often used to dynamically block hosts that are attacking your network. These hosts are typically found using a network or host IDS.
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Recommended: | Black Hole Routing Tutorial at NANOG |
Useful: | Blog on Black Hole Routing from Nick Buraglio |
Blog on Black Hole Routing from David Davis |
Note that this should only be done by experienced network engineers, as it is fairly easy to break your network if done incorrectly.