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by lima 2324 days ago
As someone who used to work for a company that hosted large-scale gaming infrastructure, I can confirm that Choopa was a common source of DDoS. DigitalOcean, too, and lots of eyeball providers. Any provider who allows credit card payments has issues with outbound attacks, and some are better at responding quickly than others.

It got so bad we ended up building and deploying our own line-rate packet processing engine at our network edge to be able to deal with the weird UDP protocols gaming uses.

How much spoofed traffic do you see nowadays?