An organization wants the ISP to automatically stop large UDP amplification floods before the attack saturates the 1 Gbps access circuit. The ISP already supports both remotely triggered black-hole (RTBH) routing and BGP FlowSpec. Which mitigation technique should the organization request to block only the malicious packets while still allowing legitimate traffic to reach the target subnet?
Ask the ISP to deploy a BGP FlowSpec filter that matches the attack's UDP port and packet size.
Implement source-based RTBH that drops traffic from the spoofed reflection networks.
Inject a /32 null route via destination-based RTBH so the ISP discards all traffic to the victim host.
Activate host-based firewall rate limiting on the target server to throttle inbound UDP packets.
BGP FlowSpec lets a customer (or the ISP's SOC) inject granular filtering rules-matching protocol, source or destination ports, packet size, and other Layer 3/4 fields-into the provider's BGP infrastructure. Routers that receive the FlowSpec NLRI discard only traffic that matches the rule, so legitimate packets for the same destination prefix continue to flow. Destination-based RTBH would null-route the entire /32 or /24, cutting off valid users, and source-based RTBH requires accurate attacker prefixes, which are rarely known during reflection or spoofed-source floods. Host-level firewalls cannot protect the congested WAN link.
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