Depends on the provider. Many just do not want to manage hundreds of customer ACL's on access routers. Especially when it would compete with a managed service (firewall, IDP, DDOS) of some sort. Some still are under the impression that ACL's are software based and their giant $100k+ edge box would crash if they configured them for any reason.
2011/10/25 Christopher Pilkington <c...@0x1.net> > Is it common in the industry for a colocation provider, when requested to > put an egress ACL facing us such as: > > deny udp any a.b.c.d/24 eq 80 > > …to refuse and tell us we must subscribe to their managed DDOS product? > > -cjp > > > >