UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

Wed Mar 3 08:26:07 UTC 2004

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak at ai.net>
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william at elan.net>
Cc: "John Obi" <dalnetuzer at yahoo.com>; <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:56 AM
Subject: Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

>
>
> william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, John Obi wrote:
> >
> >>Hello Nanogers!
> >>
> >>I'm happy to see this, and I hope C&W, Verio, and Level3 will do the
same!
> >>http://informationweek.securitypipeline.com/news/18201396
> >
>
>
> And what kind of response to DOS are we talking about? Blackholing the
> target IP to allow your pipe to pass packets and so that your router is
> pingable (which is probably the measure for whether you are up or not?)

cant speak for them, but this would be my preferred first step. next step
is, of course, an attempt to filter on {source, unique characteristics, what
have you} and removing the blackhole.

paul