[60017] in North American Network Operators' Group
WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lane Patterson)
Tue Jul 29 19:34:01 2003
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:33:28 -0700
From: "Lane Patterson" <lpatterson@equinix.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
We have some DDoS-sensitive customers asking us to refer them to the =
best ISPs for "in-the-core" DDoS defense. Other than UUnet (hi Chris!) =
and MFN, I'm not aware of any ISPs in North America developing a =
reputation for consistent DDoS defense. Could folks contact me either =
off-list or on-list?
It seems that large content providers and Tier2/3 bandwidth buyers would =
do well to collaborate on group RFP's for this type of thing to send the =
message to ISPs it is something to invest in (dare I say productize?). =
While UUnet's detection/blocking is great, it would be wonderful to see =
some more intelligent filtering of DDoS traffic ala RiverHead or similar =
approach that doesn't completely blackhole victim IPs.
Cheers,
-Lane
Equinix
