Re: level3 dia egress filtering?

[Blake Dunlap <ikiris () gmail com>]

I would personally look at leaving Level 3 over that kind of response.
I consider it basic service to throw a 1 line acl on an interface
temporarily in exceptional circumstances. Transit guys can argue if
they wish, but it won't change my expectations as a customer.
Eventually I'll find a carrier that will offer reasonable service.

I know it's why I kept UUnet back in the day, and dropped all my other
providers at the time. Heck ATT even blackholed our traffic with a
static null, so we were broken even after depeering for several hours
until we could find someone who knew what a route was via their
support.

-Blake

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
> On Monday, May 12, 2014 11:58:20 PM Petter Bruland wrote:
>
> > We contacted Level3 a few weeks back, and were told that
> > they do not provide any filtering service. I've not been
> > able to confirm this from anyone else, besides the
> > Level3 customer service rep we spoke with.
>
> We've received such requests from customers as well, and our
> policy is we do not implement any kind of filtering, even
> though it is restricted to just one customer.
>
> If the customer is looking for DoS/DDoS Mitigation services,
> that is something else that can be offered.
>
> But as an ISP, filtering in the data plane that is not for
> the protection of our core's control plane is not our deal.
> It is not something I'd ask of my IP Transit provider, nor
> support that they do.
>
> Mark.