[141322] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Tue Jun 7 15:18:54 2011
From: "Paul Stewart" <paul@paulstewart.org>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.vwpywppnwjyiia@osprey>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 15:16:55 -0400
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Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS
mitigation. ;)
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Donnelly [mailto:tad1214@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:57 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?
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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