[70976] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With AT&T
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Jun 3 05:39:50 2004
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Simon Lockhart'" <simon.lockhart@bbc.co.uk>,
"'Eric Kuhnke'" <eric@fnordsystems.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 10:39:14 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20040602073836.GC25168@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Simon,
> However, the AT&T thing looks like a combination of Arbor
> PeakFlow:DoS for automated DoS detection on the network, and
> what used to be Riverhead (and now acquired by Cisco) for
> "traffic scrubbing" to allow normal traffic to continue to be
> passed to nodes under attack.
>
> COLT have been doing this exact same thing in the UK for a while now.
>
We have been doing it *globally* for over a year now, using Arbor Peakflow
DDOS
and Riverhead Guard, [both of which are excellent products from excellent
vendors [take note Cisco!]].
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/afek.html
is the presentation Nico gave at SLC.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040428S0006
Guess which site was on the COLT network. We've also protected a large
number
of our customers against the blackmailing pay us 10K or we'll DDOS you type
situations, although few want to press release that type of situation :-)
Regards,
Neil.
