Johnny Hughes wrote:
Yeah... KaH fund! Actually, what would be just as good is to do something like have all the people on the CentOS list start pinging/packeting the crap out of said machines. The combined bandwidth would easily overpower any body except maybe the likes of Google. But, alas, this IS illegal activity in this country (US and others) and we could easily wind up with the authorities pounding on our doors.... but... gee... if our laws don't reach into these other countries, then why should our laws apply to us if we were doing it to these other countries? Could WWIII be a ping war? :)
I could just ping mirror.centos.org toward them on release day ... GeeWhiz ... there is a lot of you guys out there updating your CentOS :)
Could you please? I'll send a list of the 610 IP addresses which were attacking!
You are a victim of your own success! I wish I had a huge thread in here so I could donate some viable bandwidth. Oh well.... maybe one day.
Thanks for all the fantastic work!! I'm sure I can speak for many who are appreciative. Maybe you'll have to create a separate announce list for the quarterlies and only let 100 notices go out every eight hours or something. ;)
John Hinton