From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] D-Links NTP server vandalism Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:17:47 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Poul-Henning! It's a mess alright... :P > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chuck Harris writes: > > >Submit your letter to http://slashdot.org. It is a board that is populated > >by millions of uber geeks, probably including most of D-Link's programming > >staff. > > I know slash-dot :-) You don't say? ;o) > Two or three people have already told me that they submitted the > story... > > >Do *NOT* submit a link to your website, unless you want to see > >your server turn to > >rubble. It takes more than a T3 link just to handle the quick visits that > >this group makes to links. Their influence to servers is so extreme that it > >has caused the coining of the phrase "slashdot effect". > > The FreeBSD server in question has more bandwidth than that, last > I heard it was pretty much on a GigE that had several Gig's of > bandwidth backing it. We've taken several slash-dottings in > the past with no trouble. > > (Yes, FreeBSD _is_ a good server OS :-) Hohoum, why do I have the distinct feeling you are slightly biased? > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Hohoum... :-D Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
