Any ways to stop a DOS attack, would IP logging help?

The more and more I read the more and more I hear abour DOS attacks. Now from what I've gathered their just a flood of fake traffic intended to distrupt and cripple a network. If you can find the correct IP address you can block it, but it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

Would a service that allows people to submit their logs (They would have to be from programs like cpanel or other log recording apps so they could be automatically parsed and save people the trouble of entering IP after IP) after a suspected attack help find the perpetrators any? It would record all the IP's, the company that got hit, and suspected start time.

I would think that you would be able to find correlations from different logs containing the same IP's and possibly determine what IP is sending the attacks (I know its not just one person), or at least narrow the list.

It just seems to tragic that there isn't really much you can do to stop a DOS attack.

 

 

 

 

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