On Wed Jun 02, 2004 at 12:29:25AM -0700, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
Major providers such as Sprint and UUNet have had null route communities available for quite some time... Unless I am mistaken?
Indeed. 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. Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1628 407720 (x(01)37720) | Si fractum Technology Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1628 407701 (x(01)37701) | non sit, noli BBC Internet Ops | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk | id reficere BBC Technology, Maiden House, Vanwall Road, Maidenhead. SL6 4UB. UK