Introduction and Product Overview

Tim Witt Updated by Tim Witt

Blackholing is a mechanism to fight massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks aim to congest the physical connection between your router and DE-CIX.

To help you to mitigate the effects of DDoS attacks against your networks, DE-CIX offers blackholing in different variants.

Product Overview

Blackholing

Selectivity

destination IP only

Filter Efficiency

~50% of attack traffic*

Supports Traffic Shaping

no

Insights

yes

Number of Filters

unpredictable, depends on peers

Documentation

Blackholing Classic

How to activate?

enabled by default

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with your sales representative.

How did we do?

DE-CIX/DaaS GlobePEER Blackholing Guide

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