Black Hole Routing
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.