On Mon, 14 May 2001, Chen Shapira wrote:
That was my comment as well, the moment I've read this mail. Has this been
properly coordinated with the hosting company and the routing entities on
the path of the virtual attack ?
If not, and I hope I am wrong, then this is a non-proffessional way of
doing any kind of stress testing, and most certainly infringes the actcom
AUP for hosted servers.
We're Israeli, we're smart, but too many times we act like a bunch of
"chaperim". Think about it.
--Ariel
> And next time, do coordinate such activity with the actcom people, you could
> have DOSed their network.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Omer Musaev
> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:14 PM
> > To: 'Hetz Ben Hamo'; Oren Held; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: iglu on slashdot
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hetz Ben Hamo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:21 PM
> > > To: Oren Held; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: iglu on slashdot
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah,
> > >
> > > Ilya and I have decided to see what will happend if we'll
> > > stress test the
> > > Compaq server - with a slashdot attack.
> > >
> > > So, in co-ordination with the slashdot authors on IRC, Ilya
> > > on his side
> > > converting a word document to HTML and PDF - and me in the
> > > middle of this -
> > > we decided that - yes - lets hit the server..
> > >
> > > I think the number of downloads was about almost 10,000
> > > copies of the HTML
> > > paper and some from the PDFversion of that subject..
> > >
> > ..
> > > And as you can see - the server is still alive ;)
> > >
> > > So yes, Thanks to Ilya, Alex, Chen and others - our server is
> > > built great ;)
> >
> > The special thanx should go to Mr. Alex Lansberg and Mr.
> > Doron Omer for
> > hardware
> > and to Actcom for hosting.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > Hetz Ben Hamo
> > > System Administrator
> > > Magnifire Websystems Inc.
> >
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