Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

Mon Dec 13 11:35:00 UTC 2010

The thread made it to both NetworkWorld:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120910-wikileaks-ddos-attacks.html

and Slashdot:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/12/2120254/Has-Progress-Been-Made-In-Fighting-DDoS-Attacks
with the usual set of comments :)

-Lorand Jakab

On 12/12/2010 08:58 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Aaron Glenn <aaron.glenn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Christopher Morrow
>> <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there
>>> was some sort of incident, and completely self-service for the
>>> customer(s). Is 3250/month a reasonable insurance against loss?
>>> (40k/yr or there abouts)
>> reasonable, but 'completely self-service' ?
>> how much to have an engineer pump my gas for me (full service)? does
>> that include a windshield wipe down, tire pressure and oil check (old
>> timey full service extras)?
> end customer sends the right community and mitigation happens...
> remove the community it stops. no need to call someone and make it
> happen, just have the NOC/etc at your network follow a simple
> procedure.
>
> you are funny though :) (and I think you can call for free, 1-800
> number, and get an engineer to make things happen for you as well...)
>
> -Chris
>