[145828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outsourcing DDOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Watson)
Mon Oct 24 19:46:31 2011
From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0NkqjQMRr=b7tkvmRyaY=i-up0nvXNLtar=+Hg=U-gA6AQAA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:45:34 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Andreas Echavez wrote:
> Prolexic is the go-to company for handling large-scale DDoSes. We =
haven't
> yet tried the service, but they've been extremely professional.
Not sure I understand your post. You claim Prolexic are the go-to-guys, =
and extremely professional=85 but you haven't used them?
I would agree with Stephan's response as well, some of the other =
providers have as much capacity to deal with attacks (Verisign, Neustar, =
etc). And it's not about what's "stated" on their marketing slicks, it's =
about actual capacity, architecture, and "clue."
Prolexic has a long (early) history of DDoS mitigation, and I have no =
reason do doubt they are any worse than they used to be but if you =
haven't used them, it's just conjecture.
I'd be interested to know whom you have experience with and what size of =
attack you were able to mitigate with them (not being pedantic, but =
looking for real-world examples and all).
-b=
