Electoral-vote.com Under Heavy Load; Attack?

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."

Comments

Seems fine to me

[DJ Wipeout]

I got to the FEC with no problem. electoral-vote.com seemed fine too.

Electoral-Vote3.com - Electoral-Vote8.com

[marktaw.com]

http://www.electoral-vote3.com/

through

http://www.electoral-vote8.com/

If one doesn't come up, use another.

Re:who cares!

[DataPath]

He updates the site maybe once a day, and based upon a wide number of polls. He's not doing hourly updates as the results come back from different precincts.

Internet load today

[aacool]

netcraft reported this already earlier today http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/11/02/mirro rs_help_electoralvotecom_blunt_ddos_attacks.html

Mirroring helped

Aljazeera was also down, per Netcraft

I've blogged live about Internet Load all day on my blog today

Re:Yeah

[Xepo]

He specifically put up the mirrors because his servers were getting attacked before. It's not just from mass visitation.

Re:Gad you gave us a link to slashdot

[TopShelf]

Go here and you can see the states getting called by each of the networks as it happens. It's been my favorite site to follow tonight...

Re:Gad you gave us a link to slashdot

[Peyna]

In the case of a electoral tie, the currently sitting House of Representatives picks the President, the Senate picks the Vice President; yuor talk about the Supreme Court doesn't come into play.