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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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  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. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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