> On 10 Dec 2015, at 12:06, Graham L. Stewart <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Got to say though if you have a sustained DDoS you can’t mitigate in over 24 > hours you should probably have bought in to Arbour or similar a while ago. > Everyone is being very nice around the situation but its really not > acceptable to have had the downtime. I know my commercial customers wouldn’t > accept that. I know of networks able to mitigate even large DDoS attacks in > an hour. Sounds like they didn’t have a plan or if they did it wasn’t tested > well. >
Sounds like you are taking guesses about how Jisc are dealing with the situation. The network guys at Jisc are very professional and know how to operate networks. Jisc have been keeping their customers (i.e. Universities) informed and gave an explanation of the events of Tuesday but asked that information isn’t more widely distributed (which we are respecting). Other than for a short period (a few hours on Tuesday) there has been very little disruption. In my personal opinion the service we as University receive from Jisc (in terms of Internet provision) is exemplary and I doubt a commercial offering could compete. Universities are free to go to the market and get commercial provision if they want but I don’t think any do (other than for non-academic related activities). (Note: These are personal views) Regards Scott Armitage
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