Heyo, So, I asked to look into the viability and usefullness of the "Verisign Internet Defence Network" service. I don't claim to be any kind of expert in DDoS mitigation, but some of the claims made by the product descriptions seem suspect to me. it claims to be "Carrier-agnostic and ISP-neutral", yet "When an event is detected, Verisign will work with the customer to redirect Internet traffic destined for the protected service to a Verisign Internet Defense Network site." anyone here have any comments on how this works, and how effective it will be vs. dealing directly with your upstream providers and getting them to assist in shutting down the attack? -- Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 410-5633 You are more likely to be arrested as a terrorist than you are to be blown up by one. -- Dianora