Ahhh - let me clarify my earlier post:
<irony>
Actually, it *is* a DDoS attack - it's just that the perpetrator and the
victims have reversed roles :)
</irony>
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 10:53 AM
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Subject: RE: [hlds] Mani Site
No, it *is not* a DDoS attack however it does have the same effect in the
end. A natural flow of people wanting to visit a forum or whatever is called
an "unintentional attack" - even though it's not really any attack at all.
It is certainly not a "distributed attack" where multiple compromised
systems flood the bandwidth or resources of the targeted system. :)
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Sent: 27. august 2006 14:44
To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
Subject: RE: [hlds] Mani Site
Actually, it *is* a DDoS attack - it's just that the perpetrator and the
victims have reversed roles :)
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[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Actually its better, cause
theres nothing illegal going on, its all legitamate.
On 8/27/06, Whisper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Lol
>
> Well 100,000 people htting your forum at the same time when you are
> only setup to cater for 1000 users at a time is as good as any DDoS
> any day. :)
>
> /.'ed
>
>
> On 8/27/06, [DumB]TeXas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It was impossible to reach yesterday due to what seemed like too
> > much traffic - so my guess is that the site was taken down because
> > it couldn't handle the load of; a) a natural large flow of people
> > visiting the site due to the mani problems - or b) a DDOS attack to
> > bring it down. I don't think they would take the site down and not
> > have at least a simple index telling people why it's down...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Meph
> > Sent: 27. august 2006 03:47
> > To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com
> > Subject: Re: [hlds] Mani Site
> >
> > there was a complete revamp recently. could be related to that.
> > altho i just tried it and got a directory listing for the site. so i
> > guess it's maintainance of some kind
> >
> > Link Pankratz wrote:
> > > Only slightly off topic but does anyone know what is going on with
> > > the Mani-Admin site? It appears to me that the whole site is down.
> > >
> > > Link
> > >
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