1. A method of utilizing internet protocol (IP) traffic segmentation to prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the method comprising: receiving one or more requests for a particular service; identifying request properties associated with the one or more requests; receiving illegitimate properties from one or more related services, the illegitimate properties being relevant to the particular service; and predicting whether the one or more requests are illegitimate based on a comparison of the request properties to the illegitimate properties.