[109890] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DDOS - How much is "too much"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Lyon)
Sat Dec 13 09:56:17 2008
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:56:05 -0500
From: "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <16720fe00812130655i11df40aco7394a6692f750467@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
DDoS protection packages are generally sold with Mbps, PPS, and often
TCP-SYN / UDP session limits.
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>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a client who prior to me settled into a non-carrier-neutral
>> facility. They were approached this week for "DoS/DDoS protection" which
>> they could buy in X Mb/s, 2xX Mb/s or 4xX Mb/s scrubbing solutions.
>>
>> Maybe I've been out of the running my larger Managed Server
>> Hosting Company too long, but wasn't the "non-elegant" solutions
>> something ISPs just "did"? Was it only DoS, and when it comes to
>> DDoS they tell you its just too much to handle. And blocking how many
>> netblocks does an ISP consider "too many" before it tells the client
>> there is only so much it can do for them? Do people tell/give clients
>> their own solutions? (Like Zebra boxes that'll inject BGP into their
>> site)
>>
>> They wanted me to come up with 3 reasons FOR the service,
>> 3 against, and what I felt was a fair market value for this. I just need
>> to know if people still did that type of stuff for each other or if
>> everything costs nowadays....
>>
>> Thanks, Tuc/TBOH
>>
>>
>
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