no you don't because that's a bad analogy. We do however go to states and could ties to protect the infrastructures they paid the contractor to build.
ISPs are uniquely situated to stop this kind of ddos because the traffic originates from IPs they don't own. The traffic has a spoofed from address. And as a rule, the ISP.should only need to send traffic out of a neighborhood from the block of IPs that is assigned to that neighborhood. You can put a filter on every switch or even every interface allowing only traffic from the IP or IPs on the other side of the link to send traffic. A company like Comcast could make it default part of account setup scripts. If everyone did that, these would disappear over night.
ISPs are uniquely situated to stop this kind of ddos because the traffic originates from IPs they don't own. The traffic has a spoofed from address. And as a rule, the ISP.should only need to send traffic out of a neighborhood from the block of IPs that is assigned to that neighborhood. You can put a filter on every switch or even every interface allowing only traffic from the IP or IPs on the other side of the link to send traffic. A company like Comcast could make it default part of account setup scripts. If everyone did that, these would disappear over night.