[68224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Fri Mar 5 17:57:51 2004
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:57:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
To: Steve Francis <steve@expertcity.com>
Cc: "Terranson, Alif" <Alif.Terranson@savvis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4048FF99.9060508@expertcity.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Steve Francis wrote:
>
> Terranson, Alif wrote:
>
> >As long as we're doing "Me Too"...
> >
> >Savvis has had prefix:666 for around 18 months as well.
> >
> >
> 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.
uRPF in the core seems like a bad plan, what with diverse routes and such.
Loose-mode might help SOME, but really spoofing is such a low priority
issue why make it a requirement? Customer triggered blackholing is a nice
feature though.
--Chris
(formerly chris@uu.net)
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