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----- Original Message ----- From: "william(at)elan.net" <[email protected]> To: "John Obi" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 3:42 AM Subject: Re: UUNet Offer New Protection Against DDoS > > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, John Obi wrote: > > Hello Nanogers! > > > > I'm happy to see this, and I hope C&W, Verio, and Level3 will do the same! > > http://informationweek.securitypipeline.com/news/18201396 > > "MCI/WorldCom Monday unveiled a new service level agreement (SLA) to help > IP services customers thwart and defend against Internet viruses and threats. --- snippety snip --- > > Blah, blah, blah.... I would say this is a lot more like a self-ad then > press-release of new service. UUNET already responded within 15 minutes > or less to DoS attacks, at least this is what it was several years ago. > Possibly this changed when they went ch11 and now they are just trying to > get back to normal. But I would not say that this is anything "special". > > Of course, I would be happy to see others say the same too in their SLA, but > how about that they simply would just RESPOND in 15 minute to customer request. > (And actually one of my upstreams does exactly that they respond and have that > in their SLA. And they usually respond within 1-3 minutes and not only do > I not have to call them, but they actually call me if the link is down or > if there is serious congestion on it. Quite a a bit overzellous actually!) agreed, not very spectacular. in fact, i expect most ddos attack issues to be *resolved* within 15 minutes, for reasonable values of 'most' and 'resolved'. i would probably be very dissatisfied if i could not get to a warm, clueful and enabled body in under 10 minutes in an emergency, but then we are a reasonably large customer of a good smaller carrier so my expectations may be invalid in big boy customer land. paul
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