So I (had) a friend who now hates me and he said he would take me offline if I blocked him on Skype. I did not believe him and I said "I don't care, do your worst". Big mistake - he found out my IP address and he is now DDoSing me. I really didn't think he would be able to do it, I thought that my ISP has some sort of filter and protection against this, and that my friend was not smart enough to take me offline.

I am using an Xfinity 2 in 1 modem/router.

How can I find out the IP address of the person DDoSing me?

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If you can get your ISP to care, they can identify the IP address of the attacker, determine who his Internet provider is, and complain to them. With enough pressure, the attacker's ISP will tell him to stop and threaten to disconnect his service. But this requires you to get your ISP to care enough to go to the trouble of getting his ISP to care enough.

Unfortunately, as a residential customer of a large ISP, they're just as likely to decide that you're the problem since you asked someone to attack their network.

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