[141316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Donnelly)
Tue Jun 7 14:56:48 2011
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:56:39 -0500
From: "Thomas Donnelly" <tad1214@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DEE7120.8000406@jolokianetworks.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark Pace <pace@jolokianetworks.com>
wrote:
> I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave
> un-named for the moment. They said that they heard specific "chatter"
> about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically
> about our website. Of course they have also offered to assist us in
> preventing this from affecting our site. I'm very skeptical about even
> calling said company at this point. I'm really feeling like this is a
> shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a
> similar fashion?
>
>
> Mark Pace
Just got the same phone call from "A large company" and it was a sales
call.
They are "offering DDoS mitigation services"
I'll pass :)
-=Tom Donnelly
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