[70939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jeffrey.arnold)
Wed Jun 2 03:42:24 2004
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:39:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "jeffrey.arnold" <jba@analogue.net>
To: Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40BD81D5.1000700@fnordsystems.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
:: Major providers such as Sprint and UUNet have had null route communities
:: available for quite some time... Unless I am mistaken?
::
quoting the press release: "The mitigation option uses the principles
of analysis, filtering, scrubbing and diversion to protect against such
attacks."
So i would guess they are using riverhead and hoping they can scale
their mitigation clusters faster than DOS kids can scale their botnets.
That said, *golf clap* for doing something. Hope their system works as
well as their marketing. :-)
-jba
:: John Obi wrote:
::
:: > Hello folks,
:: >
:: > Here is a great move from one of the biggest NSPs, I'm
:: > sure we will see L3, Sprint, UUNet and others will do
:: > the same soon to gain more customers since DDoS is the
:: > nightmare of the internet now.
:: >
:: > http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040601/nytu051a_1.html
:: >
:: > Thanks,
:: >
:: > -J
:: >
:: >
:: >
:: >
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