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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:04:42 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> 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. -- W . | ,. w , "Some people are alive only because \|/ \|/ it is illegal to kill them." Perna condita delenda est ---^----^---------------------------------------------------------------
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