[68171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul)
Wed Mar 3 20:42:33 2004
From: "Paul" <paul@rusko.us>
To: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@outblaze.com>,
"Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>, <jlumenello@xo.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:42:07 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>; <jlumenello@xo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
>
> Randy Bush [3/4/2004 6:40 AM] :
>
> > i think the north american idiom is putting your money where your
> > mouth is.
>
> Thank you. That's exactly what I was driving at.
>
> Hmm.. one of the people in that "we've been doing this too" thread was
> XO. Do I take it then that XO provides for DDoS downtime in its SLA?
correct me if i am wrong, but uunet's sla extends to response time - the
efficacy of the response is not guaranteed, yes? hence, it is not downtime
that is compensated for, but rather unavailability of support.
paul
