
26 Oct
2011
26 Oct
'11
12:15 a.m.
On 10/25/2011 08:43 AM, Christopher Pilkington wrote:
Is it common in the industry for a colocation provider, when requested to put an egress ACL facing us such as:
deny udp any a.b.c.d/24 eq 80
…to refuse and tell us we must subscribe to their managed DDOS product?
-cjp
For colo? No, filtering is the customers concern, unless failure to do so is causing a problem for the colo network. Such services are almost always paid for add-ons to a colo package. The colocation business is usually fairly low on the profit margin with most companies trying to get away with the bare minimum possible over and above the basics.