Re: Colocation providers and ACL requests

[Keegan Holley <keegan.holley () sungard com>]

I'm assuming colo means hosting, and the OP misspoke.  Most colo providers
don't provide active network for colo (as in power and rack only) customers.

2011/10/25 Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk>

> On 10/25/2011 08:43 AM, Christopher Pilkington wrote:
>
> > Is it common in the industry for a colocation provider, when requested to
> > put an egress ACL facing us such as:
> >
> >   deny udp any a.b.c.d/24 eq 80
> >
> > …to refuse and tell us we must subscribe to their managed DDOS product?
> >
> > -cjp
> >
> >
> >  For colo?  No, filtering is the customers concern, unless failure to do
> so is causing a problem for the colo network.  Such services are almost
> always paid for add-ons to a colo package.  The colocation business is
> usually fairly low on the profit margin with most companies trying to get
> away with the bare minimum possible over and above the basics.