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iTunes Store brought to its knees by Video iPod announcement
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:17:52 GMT
How's that for a Denial of Service attack? :-) Via Netcraft. [snip] The Apple Store was offline for more than an hour following the launch of a new video-enabled iPod, which was unveiled today after months of anticipation. While the launch of a new Apple product routinely leads to brief "restocking" outages for the Apple store, today's downtime was longer than usual, perhaps due to web traffic generated by the pent-up curiosity of iPod lovers. [snip] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/10/12/video_ipod_launch_slows_apple_store.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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