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Why does blocking by source address fail against a distributed denial-of-service attack?

• Attacks
• Security architecture

1. Traffic arrives from many sources, so the block list cannot keep up
2. Source addresses are always encrypted
3. Firewalls cannot filter by source address
4. The attack targets the application layer only

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