I've been approached by PSI who seem to be taking a rather aggressive approach at selling their transit service as an alternative to the 3 major players in Canada (Sprint Canada, UUNet and Teleglobe). Their pricing is very aggressive but I'm just a router nazi and care more about knowing what the service is like and wether or not PSI is as well connected as the aforementioned competitors. Should I spend the money and buy from them or just peer with them, and get all their local and customer routes at only the price of a local loop? Anyone out there use them? Comments? Regards, Jason A. Lixfeld Senior Network Engineer Look Communications Inc. -- jlixfeld@team.look.ca .
Couple of facts to be considered: PSIX - Last Trade 1 15/32 http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-3724237.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3417237.html andy On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
I've been approached by PSI who seem to be taking a rather aggressive approach at selling their transit service as an alternative to the 3 major players in Canada (Sprint Canada, UUNet and Teleglobe). Their pricing is very aggressive but I'm just a router nazi and care more about knowing what the service is like and wether or not PSI is as well connected as the aforementioned competitors. Should I spend the money and buy from them or just peer with them, and get all their local and customer routes at only the price of a local loop?
Anyone out there use them? Comments?
Regards,
Jason A. Lixfeld Senior Network Engineer Look Communications Inc. -- jlixfeld@team.look.ca .
With the recent turmoil that washed over PSI, would it be a good choice to trust them with your transit? On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 04:46:50PM -0500, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
I've been approached by PSI who seem to be taking a rather aggressive approach at selling their transit service as an alternative to the 3 major players in Canada (Sprint Canada, UUNet and Teleglobe). Their pricing is very aggressive but I'm just a router nazi and care more about knowing what the service is like and wether or not PSI is as well connected as the aforementioned competitors. Should I spend the money and buy from them or just peer with them, and get all their local and customer routes at only the price of a local loop?
Anyone out there use them? Comments?
Regards,
Jason A. Lixfeld Senior Network Engineer Look Communications Inc. -- jlixfeld@team.look.ca .
-- Omachonu Ogali <missnglnk@informationwave.net> Information Wave Technologies
I'm surprised this hasn't come up in NANOG yet... On a university list many sites are reporting large amounts of traffic appearing to come from 209.67.50.203 to their DNS servers. The administrator of the source IP (spoofed of course) is the victim of a brutal DoS attack. The traffic is UDP/DNS queries that are appear to be going directly to available DNS servers (as opposed to random hosts). Most sites are reporting on the order of 6 or more packets per second to their DNS servers. The victim has apparently seen upwards of 90 Mb/s of traffic coming back in to them. Does anyone here have anymore information on this attack? John
John Kristoff wrote:
On a university list many sites are reporting large amounts of traffic appearing to come from 209.67.50.203 to their DNS servers. The administrator of the source IP (spoofed of course) is the victim of a brutal DoS attack. The traffic is UDP/DNS queries that are appear to be going directly to available DNS servers (as opposed to random hosts). Most sites are reporting on the order of 6 or more packets per second to their DNS servers. The victim has apparently seen upwards of 90 Mb/s of traffic coming back in to them. Does anyone here have anymore information on this attack?
In general, this attack method is known. There is some information about it documented at: Denial of Service Attacks Using Nameservers http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-2000-04.html Regards, Kevin
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