is it possible for providers to protect against such large ddos's?
lately a nice opensource rpi projext @#xbianonpi has become a victim of @GrimTheGodDos and the website is almost unreachable for weeks now, due to large udp ddos attacks.
http://slashdot.org/submission/2372205/xbian-unecessarily-attacked-by-ex-ugnazi-member
https://twitter.com/XBianOnPi