UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

Fri Mar 5 22:30:49 UTC 2004

Terranson, Alif wrote:

>As long as we're doing "Me Too"...
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>Savvis has had prefix:666 for around 18 months as well.
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Do you know if C&W does? Or will that wait until the integration?

This thread has caused me to add this as a requirement for a new gigabit 
ISP circuit I am ordering, as well as uRPF in the core, etc.
I've had two ISPs say "We don't do this yet, but based on the fact you 
are making it a requirement, we will role those functions out into our 
core."

Steve
Voting with his money for better net-security....

>Alif Terranson
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>Operations Security Department
>Savvis Communications Corporation
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Hallgren [mailto:m.hallgren at free.fr] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:45 PM
>>To: nanog at merit.edu
>>Subject: RE: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
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>>>Global Crossing has this, already in production.
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>>Idem, Teleglobe,
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>>mh
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>>>I was on the phone with Qwest yesterday & this was one of
>>>this things I asked about. Qwest indicated they are going to 
>>>deploy this shortly. (i.e., send routes tagged with a 
>>>community which they will set to null)
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>>>James Edwards
>>>Routing and Security
>>>jamesh at cybermesa.com
>>>At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa Store hours:
>>>9-6 Monday through Friday 505-988-9200 SIP:1(747)669-1965
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