Cogent vs. Network Solutions

Well, it would seem that in the war between Cogent and Network solutions, Network Solutions is winning.  I’m sure most are aware of what is happening, there has been a DDos on Network Solutions from spoofed Cogent IP addresses in the 38.98.0.0/16, and in order to remedy the problem Network solutions has black holed that range!!  No problem you think, good idea, well it is unless you have one of those IP addresses that got black-holed!  The general response from Cogent has been “sit Tight we’re working on it!”  GREAT!  unless you have screaming users wondering why their mail isn’t getting delivered!!  You never really think about it, but Network Solutions does have a large customer base, even if it is just for DNS management.  So here comes the point of this post, in the great wisdom of many a network engineer better then myself, the solution has been (from the cogent side anyway) to re-number!  Change the range of IP addresses we’re giving you to something out the 38.98.0.0/16 network!  What a great solution, oh yeah no big deal, lets just change all of our MX and other public DNS services, our firewalls NAT tables, as well as the occasional remote user who got an IP address to connect in to rather than a DNS name.  Unfortunately since Network solutions seems to be wining this “war” I don’t know what choice we have, and to be honest, it SUCKS!!  Period!