RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

["Paul Stewart" <paul () paulstewart org>]

Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS
mitigation. ;)

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Donnelly [mailto:tad1214 () gmail com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:57 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark Pace <pace () jolokianetworks com>  
wrote:

> I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave
> un-named for the moment.  They said that they heard specific "chatter"
> about DDoS of IPv6 day participant sites and even more specifically
> about our website.  Of course they have also offered to assist us in
> preventing this from affecting our site.  I'm very skeptical about even
> calling said company at this point.  I'm really feeling like this is a
> shakedown and was wondering if anyone else had been approached in a
> similar fashion?
>
>
> Mark Pace

Just got the same phone call from "A large company" and it was a sales  
call.

They are "offering DDoS mitigation services"

I'll pass :)

-=Tom Donnelly





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