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 :: > :: > :: > :: > :: > __________________________________ :: > Do you Yahoo!? :: > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. :: > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ :: > :: > :: __ [jba@analogue.net] :: analogue.networks.nyc :: http://analogue.net