Method and apparatus for mitigating distributed denial of service attacks

• Main Authors: JACKSON JEFFREY A, BATES ANDREW L, PACELLA DANTE J, CARNEY MARK D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.11.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION

An approach for mitigating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks includes assigning a set of temporary network addresses to a hostname for a finite period and assigning one or more other sets of temporary network addresses to the hostname in one or more following finite periods, responding to...