Norman Rasmussen wrote:
I (as a server admin) want to protect my server from attacks.

Obfuscation != protection.
Whole protection is as secure as weakest element of it, don't forget that.

Yes, I know, hiding IP makes flood attack a bit more complicated, but you should never forget about social engineering:

<malicious> Wow! I see, you use jabber. I would like to use it too, but all ICQ transports I used were unstable. What server do you use?
<victim> icq.example.org

malici...@botmaster$ sudo ping -f icq.example.org
............

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WBRBW, Leonid Evdokimov

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