[OT] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys
Hi! On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:59:18AM -0400, Drew Taylor wrote: What I found most interesting was the detail of the extensive caching which was implemented to survive the seasonal rush. Wasn't this seasonal rush at least partly caused by the so-called toywar (www.toywar.com) between eToys.com (the online retailer) and etoy.com (the art group)? As far as I remember this incident, eToys.com sued etoy.com (who were holding this domain since 1994) because of trademark delusion etc., which caused one of the first distrubuted DOS attacks against etoys.com. see: http://rtmark.com/etoymain.html -- D_OMM O_xyderkes M_echanenhttp://domm.zsi.at M_asteuei
Re: [OT] Re: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys
Wasn't this seasonal rush at least partly caused by the so-called toywar (www.toywar.com) between eToys.com (the online retailer) and etoy.com (the art group)? There were a lot of DoS attacks (and some even uglier, nastier ones) in 1999 as a result of that. Most of that was dealt with through standard access control stuff, plus the throttling code that was mentioned in the article. The 2000 rush, which we built this new system for, was real customer traffic, although there's always some joker with a bot trying to buy all the PlayStation 2 units. - Perrin
