[time-nuts] D-Links NTP server vandalism

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4436658B.30801 at erols.com>, 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 :-)


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 :-)

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