[31906] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UO slashdotted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hardie@equinix.com)
Fri Oct 27 13:57:54 2000
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To: neil@COLT.NET (Neil J. McRae)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:55:54 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200010271736.SAA06004@NetBSD.noc.COLT.NET> from "Neil J. McRae" at Oct 27, 2000 06:36:44 PM
From: hardie@equinix.com
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http://slashdot.org is a geek-oriented news page. They have many,
many readers and the "Slashdot effect" is a common short hand for the
effect of sudden popularity on the infrastructure serving a particular
piece of content. They have linked to the URL to the Carnivore
presentation from NANOG20 http://videolab.uoregon.edu/nanog/carnivore/.
The ftp service for the mpeg files and the iptv players is no longer
available, and I infer that the mass of slashdot readers trying to
grab a 382mb file is the reason. Sorry if my shorthand for the
event was confusing,
regards,
Ted
>
> >
> > It looks like a slashdot link to the UO Carnivore files
> > has taken out the service.
> > Ted
>
> What ever that means!
>
