If they were releasing information to the wider community I wouldn’t have to speculate …………
On 10/12/2015, 12:34, "Scott Armitage" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >
