@misc{rfc3882, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 3882, howpublished = {RFC 3882}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC3882}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3882}, author = {Doughan Turk}, title = {{Configuring BGP to Block Denial-of-Service Attacks}}, pagetotal = 8, year = 2004, month = oct, abstract = {This document describes an operational technique that uses BGP communities to remotely trigger black-holing of a particular destination network to block denial-of-service attacks. Black-holing can be applied on a selection of routers rather than all BGP-speaking routers in the network. The document also describes a sinkhole tunnel technique using BGP communities and tunnels to pull traffic into a sinkhole router for analysis. This memo provides information for the Internet community.}, }