This presentation summarizes over a year of operational experience in
tracking denial-of-service attacks across a large regional ISP. We
present
measurements and observations on attacks ranging from small floods
targeting dorm-room IRC servers, to all out, well-coordinated attacks
against elements of the backbone infrastructure. In collaboration with
backbone operations/engineering staff, we deployed analysis and probe
machines at the peering points and major customer access points in a
Michigan provider's network. The measurement infrastructure combined
Netflow collection with network topology statistics to identify attack
ingress points and trajectories. The presentation will highlight some of
the operational challenges we faced as well the successes.