It also completely overlooks the fact that some of the traffic has spoofed source IP addresses and a bad actor could use automated black holing to knock a legitimate site offline.

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codedokode 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> a bad actor could use automated black holing to knock a legitimate site offline.

No, in my concept the host can only manage the traffic targeted at it and not at other hosts.

	▲	tw04 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That already exists… that's part of cloudflare and other vendors mitigation strategy. There’s absolutely no chance ISPs are going to extend that functionality to random individuals on the internet.