Re: UUNET instability?

[Lionel <longword () newsguy com>]

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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