Can you share with us the mitigation techniques you tried so far and what worked better, what did not work at all, etc?
We've had a few false-starts, but we've finally gotten all of our datacenters dropping all traffic to these critical IPs at the edges. This should stop the most serious outages, so it's a big step.
I do feel a certain amount of loyalty to linode, as they've been an excellent service the past few years, and I see them battling to put out these fires.
I'm hoping as linode grows in size they can put in place more sophisticated measures to guard against this - DDoS is a problem everyone faces. Its tough, but when the dust settles, it could be an opportunity to innovate.