Red Hat 6.2 Beta on FTP Servers

Bryan Mattern writes "I went to do an FTP install this morning and noticed RedHat 6.2beta on the FTP mirrors. There is no official word yet from Red Hat, but I'm downloading it right now. Might be nice to check out if you can grab it. " Update: 02/09 06:32 by H :You can also grab it from SourceForge's mirror.

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--More breaking news from the internet front: Today, RedHat (RHAT), popular linux distributors and mega-crazy IPO company, was hit by a world-wide DoS attack. This attack differed from the typica SYN-flooding attacks, where attackers open numerous bogus connections to a server. The attack was characterized by a massize amount of so-called 'FTP' clients, attempting to retrieve data from the server. 'FTP' is a know program that has been in existance for a long time, and is widely known. "We knew about FTP, and we thought we could protect against this type of occurence, but apparently, the effects were heightened by the 'slashdot effect'", said an unnamed source from RedHat.

This is not the first time that a site has claimed to be 'slashdotted', and only one of many ever-increasing cases of this effect coupling with the always dangerous 'FTP'. Anonymous Coward comments, "yeah, d00dz - FTP can like, get stuff off of peoples hard disks and stuff. Ya know, like pictures of Natalie, and Don Knotts.. It r4vvkz!"

The DoJ is now working with NSA on ways to prevent the dreaded 'slashdot effect', and curb use of the 'FTP' programs that are so widely spread around the Internet. "It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it!" says Al Gore, self-proclaimed founder of the Internet, "We've been fighting these battles for years."

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