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