[47114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET instability?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lionel)
Thu Apr 25 16:16:50 2002
From: Lionel <longword@newsguy.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 06:11:48 +1000
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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:04:42 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen
<ras@e-gerbil.net> wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:48:11AM +1000, Lionel wrote:
>>
>> Folks, please don't try to connect to that service.
>> Posting it here seems to have Slashdotted it.
>
>Generally something doesn't get "Slashdotted" unless it is fully of poorly
>written dynamic code which should never have been put in production in the
>first place, such as PHP doing 20 mysql queries per page view or something
>else equally stupid and linux kiddie.
>
>A BOFH quote generator, on the other hand, is very very simple. It boggles
>the mind to imagine a server so weak or code so bad that it couldn't
>handle a couple hundred connections from NANOG readers. If that is the
>case, I would strongly suggest you reevaluate the language or method in
>which it was written.
I beg your pardon? Where did you get the idea that I wrote or hosted it?
I was assuming it'd been Slashdotted because it was working fine before
I posted the link, then stopped working shortly afterwards. It's also
entirely possible the somebody at the site got annoyed at all the
requests & put a DENY ALL on it.
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