Dropping connectivity for Cyberbunker?

2013-03-31 Thread Joseph Chin
This article talks about convincing direct peers and transit providers to stop Net connectivity to the culprit http://www.darkreading.com/blog/240151931/who-supplies-cyberbunker.html Would it not be easier if a majority of the ISPs simply filter BGP prefixes containing the aforementioned ASes

RE: Suggestions for managed DNS provider?

2013-02-14 Thread Joseph Chin
I have been a big fan of CommunityDNS cdns.net for many years. Their infrastructure is very robust and the prices very reasonable too. If there is anything that needs improvement, it would be their draconian reporting tool. Otherwise, it is hard to beat them for no non-sense reasonably priced DNS

RE: Ddos mitigation service

2013-02-01 Thread Joseph Chin
From my personal experience, I am a fan of pure-play DDoS mitigation service providers (e.g. Prolexic, Dosarrest) because they are the least likely to give up on you when things get real difficult. Read the SLA careful to make sure it is fit for your purpose. -Original Message- From:

RE: Solutions for DoS DDoS

2012-12-06 Thread Joseph Chin
Is the cause of this non-profit a controversial one with a good likelihood of attracting the attention of demographics with the ability to mount DDoS attacks? If your upstream can do it for a good price (on account of being a non-profit organization) and they have lots of bandwidth along with a

RE: Online/double-conversion UPS economy/high efficiency modes?

2012-12-06 Thread Joseph Chin
That is so old-school FUD re line-interactive vs double-conversion. Very much the tubeless vs tubed tire debate all over again. Buy well-engineered quality brand products (ie Emerson/Liebert, Schneider/APC) then it will be a non-issue. -Original Message- From: Mike

RE: DDOS hardware appliances for network security - Arbor Pravail APS vs nsFocus ADS 6020 - Reviews - Feedback

2012-12-02 Thread Joseph Chin
If all you need is initial mitigation against fairly basic flood type attack vectors, then the Radware and a host of other similar appliances, should do the job. I know Radware is in the stack of a few very successful DDoS mitigation services. But if you intend to offer a premium DDoS