[119114] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Sat Nov 7 14:07:54 2009
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.com>
To: "'Florian Weimer'" <fweimer@bfk.de>
In-Reply-To: <82tyx8m14c.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:07:09 -0500
Cc: 'Jeffrey Lyon' <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>,
'NANOG list' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fweimer@bfk.de]
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:52 AM
> To: Stefan Fouant
> Cc: 'Jeffrey Lyon'; 'NANOG list'
> Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS
>
> Some companies have already suffered from this because they completely
> outsourced their authoritative DNS service to dedicated DNS service
> providers. Only very few customers of those providers were attacked,
> but the impact was felt across larger parts of their customer base.
Been there, done that. I used to work for Ultra. 'Nuff said ;)
Stefan Fouant
GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D
