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Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?

Posted by timothy on from the get-your-provisioning-on dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Electoral-vote.com (and mirrors electoral-vote2.com through electoral-vote8.com) seem to be very slow at the moment. Votemaster ( A. Tanenbaum) just posted 'All the servers appear to be under attack now, also DNS. I added another large multiprocessor but it doesn't seem to help much. I don't this is going to work. Sorry.' Massive attack or just a large flash crowd? Anybody up for some mirroring so votemaster can concentrate on the polls?" Reader fishwack writes with word that as of 3:46GMT (10:46 PM Eastern time in the U.S.) "the Federal Electoral Commission's Web site is down."

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  1. The Oldest Slashdotting.. by Renraku · · Score: 4, Funny

    Political zerg.

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    1. Re:The Oldest Slashdotting.. by websaber · · Score: 4, Funny

      " Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?". Great let's slashdot it. That will make their day!

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  2. Web site maybe being ddos'd by StudyOfEfficiency · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's post it to Slashdot with a link.

    1. Re:Web site maybe being ddos'd by pyrote · · Score: 4, Funny

      Let's post it to Slashdot with a link.

      Or even Double it or Triple it!

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  3. Yeah by Tyndmyr · · Score: 4, Funny

    It must be under attack, probably by terrorists, who seek to quash our freedom and replace it with...evilness! Because, you know, it doesnt make sense that a site could go down because of insane numbers of people using it. Us slashdotters cant imagine such a thing happening. Besides, who would be going there now, anyhow?

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  4. There's an election today by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think these sites might be slow because the US is voting in a Presidential Election today, so people are checking out those sites for the results so far, etc.

    1. Re:There's an election today by RealProgrammer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Presidential election?

      Who's running?

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    2. Re:There's an election today by ktakki · · Score: 4, Funny
      Who's running?

      Darl McBride is running against Richard Stallman, with Theo DeRaadt as a third party candidate.

      k.
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    3. Re:There's an election today by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny
      What!? Have you been living under a rock?

      It's Giant Douche v.s. Turd Sandwitch.

      It looks like Turd Sandwitch may take it right now, but it's really going to be up to the Washington Racist Football Team.

  5. Under attack by Slashdot editors? by stoborrobots · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's this? like the fourth direct link to the site today?

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  6. MicroKernel by diablobsb · · Score: 5, Funny

    quick!
    switch to a microkernel based OS and webserver we all know would stand up to this attack nicely...
    jk :)

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  7. help help! by Fiz+Ocelot · · Score: 3, Funny
    This site seems to under a very huge load! Quick, post it on Slashdot!

    heh but on a serious note, there's something over 120 million voters? With such a close election? Doubt it's a hostile attack.

  8. Re:LOL BUSH IS WINNING YOU COMMIES! by camooT · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't count your chickens. Assuming you know how to count.

  9. Re:Gad you gave us a link to slashdot by Peyna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, so now it's down to Ohio and New Mexico. If Bush takes Ohio, Kerry takes New Mexico (and NH, the rest of the states follow the trend from 4 years ago), there will be a tie.

    Which means we would probably end up with President George Bush and Vice-President John Edwards. That'd be a hoot.

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  10. Alright smartass... by Art+Tatum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where's all that "a 20% performance hit is not a big deal" crap now, bigmouth? :-)

  11. Re:Thunderdome!!!!! by Kenshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope they play that "dramatic battle" music from when Kirk fought Spock on Star Trek...

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  12. Obligatory Futurama Reference... by supermonkeyball · · Score: 5, Funny
    On the TV, candidate Jack Johnson is debating candidate John Jackson.

    Johnson: It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates!
    Jackson: Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But, quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said!
    Fry: These are the candidates? They sound like clones. [Squints] Wait a minute. They are clones!
    Leela: Don't let their identical DNA fool you. They differ on some key issues.
    Johnson: I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!
    Jackson: And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough!

    Script found Here

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