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Originally Posted by **********
The best thing to do in this case is to contact your hosting provider, or, if you own your own machines, contact the data center's NOC and ask them for help. They will be able to provide you with various firewall products and services that
(a) Are instantly available to you, and
(b) They can provide full support for.
Good luck!
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That's not true. Most hosts will just nullroute you when you're getting ddosed. Very few hosts offer anything like Cisco Guard. Conventional firewalls don't do anything to stop a ddos.
Defeating a ddos takes either a specialized host or a 3rd party mitigation service.