UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

Thu Mar 4 01:42:07 UTC 2004

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh at outblaze.com>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy at psg.com>
Cc: <nanog at merit.edu>; <jlumenello at xo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

>
> Randy Bush  [3/4/2004 6:40 AM] :
>
> > i think the north american idiom is putting your money where your
> > mouth is.
>
> Thank you.  That's exactly what I was driving at.
>
> Hmm.. one of the people in that "we've been doing this too" thread was
> XO.  Do I take it then that XO provides for DDoS downtime in its SLA?

correct me if i am wrong, but uunet's sla extends to response time - the
efficacy of the response is not guaranteed, yes? hence, it is not downtime
that is compensated for, but rather unavailability of support.

paul