[j-nsp] ddos rtbh service

[Mark Tinka]

On 7/Apr/15 15:31, Aaron wrote:
> I'm using cogent and twc (time warner cable's) ddos rtbh service for
> stopping attacks out in the cloud before they flood my internet links. and
> it works nice and fast.
>
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> Cogent is using a special bgp neighbor location for signaling bgp /32's into
> it.
>
> TWC uses a community for tagging bgp /32's into it.
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> Now, I'm getting a third internet connection with AT&T. how do they do it ?
> Any insight into how you all use AT&T for this and what group at AT&T do
> y'all talk to in order to get this setup , I'd appreciate.  (when I did it
> with cogent, as usual, those guys seem laid back, and fast at what I usually
> ask of them.. TWC seemed a little harder for me to get through the layers of
> the company in order to finally talk to the right person..)

BGP communities or dedicated sessions are the typical ways to signal
RTBH prefixes to your upstream.

Mark.