On Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:06 AM, Suresh wrote:

On 5/10/05, Hannigan, Martin <hannigan@verisign.com> wrote:

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DDOS' is rather infrequent to zero for most enterprises. That DDOS golden banana is rather yummy with sprinkles on top. Don't get me wrong, the DDOS problem is real, but not for everyone, and not as frequently as it's being hyped up to be. A managed service is a better way to go if they're worried, IMO.

There's also the "minimze risk" thing .. take a conscious business decision not to host one of the typical DDoS magnets (dont allow people to run IRC bots on your colo farm, for example)

Dumping our IRC customers dropped our DDoS frequency by an order of magnitude. We've certainly slept better as a result. Chris -------------------------------- Chris Ranch Director of Network Architecture Affinity Internet, Inc.