Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Thomas Donnelly
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:42:40 -0500, Mark Pace p...@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

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Jima
On 06/07/2011 01:42 PM, Mark Pace wrote: I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. It wasn't Radware, was it? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-ipv6-security.html If not, it would seem that there's no shortage of IPv6 FUD this

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:42:40AM -0700, Mark Pace 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

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Thomas Donnelly
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:01:59 -0500, Jima na...@jima.tk wrote: On 06/07/2011 01:42 PM, Mark Pace wrote: I got an interesting contact from a large company that I will leave un-named for the moment. It wasn't Radware, was it? http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/060611-ipv6-security.html

RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
We got the same call. I think they just trolled on through the IPv6Day participants list. They indicated that we were likely to be 'specifically targeted' as a result of 'putting ourselves out there'. I suspect it's merely a misprogrammed sales drone spewing fear-infused garbage. The caller

RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread 1qaz 2wsx
We too just received this phone call. The company was Verisign, felt an awful lot like a protection racket. Very unwelcomed phone call. Buyer Beware. ^1qaz2wsx^

RE: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Stewart
Hehe.. yeah, no thanks - I'll do it myself with our existing DDOS mitigation. ;) Paul -Original Message- From: Thomas Donnelly [mailto:tad1...@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

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Tim Chown
On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:04, Leo Bicknell wrote: I thought the goal was to get everyone to try out IPv6. Doesn't that include the miscreants? :) Well, if I was evil I'd be looking for IPv6 back doors tomorrow... Tim

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread christian koch
I can confirm, it was indeed Verisign who emailed me with the same message. I am slightly disappointed by this course of action, needless to say I am not surprised, because this kind of behavior is expected from sales people. I had a bit more respect for them, however... -ck On Tue, Jun 7,

Re: ipv6 day DDoS threat?

2011-06-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:18:11 BST, Tim Chown said: On 7 Jun 2011, at 20:04, Leo Bicknell wrote: I thought the goal was to get everyone to try out IPv6. Doesn't that include the miscreants? :) Well, if I was evil I'd be looking for IPv6 back doors tomorrow... No, that's when everybody