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Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Francis)
Fri Mar 5 17:29:53 2004

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:30:49 -0800
From: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com>
To: "Terranson, Alif" <Alif.Terranson@savvis.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3B33FD3ADBD7054DB410CD9DA314133E02009CB8@sl6exch4>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Terranson, Alif wrote:

>As long as we're doing "Me Too"...
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>Savvis has had prefix:666 for around 18 months as well.
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Do you know if C&W does? Or will that wait until the integration?

This thread has caused me to add this as a requirement for a new gigabit 
ISP circuit I am ordering, as well as uRPF in the core, etc.
I've had two ISPs say "We don't do this yet, but based on the fact you 
are making it a requirement, we will role those functions out into our 
core."

Steve
Voting with his money for better net-security....

>Alif Terranson
>OpSec Engineering Manager
>Operations Security Department
>Savvis Communications Corporation
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>(314) 628-7602 Voice
>(314) 208-2306 Pager
>(618) 558-5854 Cell
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Hallgren [mailto:m.hallgren@free.fr] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:45 PM
>>To: nanog@merit.edu
>>Subject: RE: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
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>>>Global Crossing has this, already in production.
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>>Idem, Teleglobe,
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>>mh
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>>>I was on the phone with Qwest yesterday & this was one of
>>>this things I asked about. Qwest indicated they are going to 
>>>deploy this shortly. (i.e., send routes tagged with a 
>>>community which they will set to null)
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>>>
>>>James Edwards
>>>Routing and Security
>>>jamesh@cybermesa.com
>>>At the Santa Fe Office: Internet at Cyber Mesa Store hours:
>>>9-6 Monday through Friday 505-988-9200 SIP:1(747)669-1965
>>>
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