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Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now AvailableWith AT&T

  • From: jeffrey.arnold
  • Date: Wed Jun 02 03:44:01 2004

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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