Re: [OT: National Moment of Silence] - or lack thereof

[Joshua Smith]

"Al Rowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The only drop in 'traffic' I've ever noticed was in my former life in
> the military. Retreat policy on base was that traffic pulled  [cut]

i think i was lucky i never had a car while i was living on base :)

regarding the 'silence' yesterday - i was wondering if anyone saw a spike
in traffic between the hours of 1730-2100 eastern time yesterday destined
for addresses in the 64.12.95/24 range, the source addresses were 
spoofed, but internap managed to decipher that some were coming from 
singapore tel - i was dos'ed pretty hard last night and could use some
help tracing it back

tia

joshua

OT: National Moment of Silence

[Al Rowland]

Doug,

The only drop in 'traffic' I've ever noticed was in my former life in
the military. Retreat policy on base was that traffic pulled to the side
of the road and the driver got out, faced the music and rendered the
appropriate salute through the end of the anthem. Since this occurred at
a regularly scheduled time one indication of its approach was a
noticeable drop in traffic preceding retreat.

Sad commentary on our allegiance at the time.

Best regards,
_
Alan Rowland


-Original Message-
From: Doug Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:39 AM
To: Al Rowland
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: National Moment of Silence


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote:

>
> I would think there might be a few folk streaming live feeds during 
> this period. Might even result in a higher traffic load leading up to 
> and through the relevant period. Some traffic may also be queued and 
> continue to flow unless SAs worldwide do a bunch of scripting to 
> suspend all processes during this period.
>
A live feed of a national moment of silence consuming traffic. Does
anybody but me find this amusingly ironic? :)

(I know it's the stuff pre and post silence that the live feeds would be
interested in, but still!)