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my playlist right now...
Pink Floyd - US & Them
Pink Floyd - Speak To Me
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky
Pink Floyd - Breathe
today in history...
1818 - Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1934 - NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1938 - Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1966 - Dutch govt of Zijlstra forms
1986 - Central African Republic adopts constitution
and birthdays...
1829 - Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet
1900 - Alice Calhoun, Cleveland OH, Silent film actress (Flowing Gold)
1941 - Juliet Mills, London England, actress (Nanny & the Professor, QB VII)
1958 - Frank Edmonds, Thunder Bay Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Alberta)
1970 - Jorgen Gustafsson, WLAF guard (Amsterdam Admirals)
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Analysis of a Slashdot attack
I'm writing this article "live", so to
speak. I was routinely checking my logs a few minutes ago and I
noticed page after page of requests for the same file. Actually I
noticed that every time I clicked to the next page the total number of
pages would have gone up by one so I'd actually be viewing the same
page!
First thought was "what the hell's going
on here?". A nano-second later I'd opened up two tabs in my browser.
One was directed to news.google.com, in the other I idly entered
slashdot, CTRL-ENTER, "just on the off-chance". Results for Google
News appeared first ...and there it was, the only result, I'd been "Slashdotted",
via peopleaggregator.com
Actually I'd noticed something slightly
amiss two hours before. There were a flurry of reuests for this file
followed by about twenty requests all from the same IP, all with no
referrer or agent. However I didn't follow up on the trail...
Anyway now I've downloaded my logs (well
the fifty two pages that were there when I spotted this phenomenon)
and I'm proceeding to analyze the data. The logs already contain
country data which is quite interesting, now I'm proceeding to further
disect this ...
Latest update: all requests have ceased;
peopleaggregator went tits up ten minutes ago.
PeopleAggregator is currently undergoing some
significant tinkering and updates, due to the recent attention from
Slashdot
& others. Sorry for any inconvenience, and thanks for stopping by!
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