Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

["Kevin Oberman" <oberman () es net>]

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:09:16 -0500
> From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com> wrote:
> > verizon's ddos service was/is 3250/month flat... not extra if there
> > was some sort of incident, and completely self-service for the
> > customer(s). Is 3250/month a reasonable insurance against loss?
> > (40k/yr or there abouts)
> >
> > -chris
> > > > >
> >
> > That doesn't sound too unreasonable as long as you are in a market Verizon services and you can find the right 
> > Verizon rep who isn't trying to sell transit at $25/mbps.
>
> if you find that guy, maybe they'll also be the mythical unicorn of a
> sales person who will sell you ipv6 transit too?

Unless VZB has started accepting prefixes longer than /32, they really
don't have real IPv6 transit to sell.
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