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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."
Political zerg.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Let's post it to Slashdot with a link.
I don't this is going to work.
:)
Me neither
I got to the FEC with no problem. electoral-vote.com seemed fine too.
I was just there and kept refreshing and everything was working fine....stop crying wolf
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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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.
What's this? like the fourth direct link to the site today?
"Go to CNN [for a] spell-checked, fact-checked summary" -- CmdrTaco
quick! :)
switch to a microkernel based OS and webserver we all know would stand up to this attack nicely...
jk
I for one, welcome our new hot grits... PROFIT!
right now they're calling florida as "weak kerry" which is nowhere near the case if you look at the figures in so far. Why is this site important?
heh but on a serious note, there's something over 120 million voters? With such a close election? Doubt it's a hostile attack.
and they are actually trying to shut them down by posting on slashdot...(?)
/. affect as good as denial of service?
isnt the
~slashdot are my only freinds ):
Same here. The site's actually responding faster for me now than it was last night.
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/
through
http://www.electoral-vote8.com/
If one doesn't come up, use another.
Don't count your chickens. Assuming you know how to count.
Mirroring helped
Aljazeera was also down, per Netcraft
I've blogged live about Internet Load all day on my blog today
Its good that you provide us apache-crash-happy slashdotters with a link to Electoral-vote.com, come on troops get in there and get that server smoking!
More seriously, can anyone tell my why at this moment the reports are so uneven among the major networks:
NBC: 207 / 199
Yahoo: 237 / 199
Fox: 210 / 144
CBS: 246 / 207
Answer that, then continue to F5, F5, F5...
And do it in firefox, maybe the major news sites will notice in their logs.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
Nebraska's splits their EV's by area. Thus the votes can be split between the candidates. CNN is only calling four out of the five electoral votes.
:-)
Don't worry, I had the same question. You just have to drill into the numbers to figure it out.
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Check out the exit polls. Scroll down to what people believe are the most important qualities in a president. Only 7% said intelligence!!!!! HOLY FUCK!!! JESUS CHRIST, is this the country that I'm living in?!?!?!?
Where's all that "a 20% performance hit is not a big deal" crap now, bigmouth? :-)
I don't understand why Slashbots assume that people who support Bush are dumb. I don't support Bush; I voted for Kerry. But I don't think that people who voted for Bush are dumb. They just have different priorities, values, and opinions than I do. I just don't get it: I understand Bush bashing (he's a public figure after all), but why bash people who voted for him? Attacking someone who holds a different opinion than you does not help your cause...
Is it just me, or is this guy (who's supposed to be this networking guru) is a little too careless with interchanging the words "attack" with "under heavy load"...
Look, your site just got posted twice to Slashdot, not to mention Fark a few times, and is trumpeting itself as one of the best statistical predictors. Who knows how many other people have it hotlinked (since it had been promoting a Kerry win for a while), and are just clicking Refresh to see what you've changed... That doesn't correllate with a malicious attempt to block usage of your website by hogging network resources in a denial of service style "attack"... besides, it's not like the information you're presenting is all that unique, it's just your opinion after all, an opinion shared by 48% of the voting public. And at the end of the day, he's seeing network load because he just doesn't have the monetary resources that a CNN or Yahoo does to throw another server or 6 up when under heavy usage...
But it doesn't matter anyways, since the content of the site isn't updating today with what we're learning of the polls... New Jersey for Kerry (as he predicted), Florida has gone Bush (which he didn't), which puts Bush as the winnner. His site still reads Kerry, which I'm not surprised, as he freely admits he's a Kerry supporter. We'll probably have it all sorted out in a few hours.
I hope they play that "dramatic battle" music from when Kirk fought Spock on Star Trek...
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
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.
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just some of the problems that went down today.
It won't be over at least a week if not longer. So long as it's decided by inauguration day, we'll be okay.
What?
If ever there was an excuse for armed rebellion against the state, this is it. Bush is unintelligent and even though the majority of Americans think he is qualified, WE KNOW BETTER AND WE ARE SMARTER. Here at Slashdot, we pride ourselves as the party of the open-minded and accepting (so long as you agree with our views). SO LET'S REFUSE TO ACCEPT THE ELECTION RESULTS. We know they cheated (the details and facts are irrevelant). Power to the "people"!
Election returns.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Which "part" of Mane are you talking about? Does anyone know where the split ends?
Hmm, I may have to mullet over for a while.
-You're not my REAL dad!
-- Mace only makes me hornier.
Suck it up! When we stop being divided, we open the door to single-party totalitarianism.
When we stop being divided, we stop being free.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Intelligence has not much to do with the above, though it can definitely help there. Can you imagine a wise person lacking intelligence though ?
The bad news for Kerry is that while majority of voters in the 18-25 age group voted for Kerry but that group also had the worst voter turn out as well. I guess getting drunk or playing games all night is more important than voting for their future.
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George W. Bush
The White House, USA
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE LAW ENFORCEMENT: I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY: I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
COLLEGE: I graduated from Yale University. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR: I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any Governor in American history. With the help of my brother, the Governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period. After taking-off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S.history. I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. In my State Of The Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president. In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history. I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in war time. I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. I've broken more international treaties than any president in U.S. history. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her. I am the first president in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community. I created th
Last election I watched an exit poller. He had no method of randomly selecting people to poll as far as I could tell. The only pattern I could see is that he seemed to be more inclined to ask pretty young woman.
Conspiracy theories aside, I think it is just bad polling. Democrats are generally younger. Younger people are generally prettier and look more approachable. It might be a small effect, but do it a few thousand times and it adds up. I am not saying that it isn't worth looking into, but my gut guess would be that it is simply poor random selection.
Yup, do what the bully says, he might not beat you up and take your lunch money.
You mean MINIX?
What, Bush is at lead!
(Reload)
What, Bush is still at lead!
(Reload)
Bush is still at lead, fsck!
(Reload)
Fsck!
(Reload)
Fsck! Fsck!
(Reload)
I play Iclod.
Yeah, he means MINIX, the microkernel based O.S. developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. As far as I can tell, Minux is a small Linux distribution developed by Roland Wehren.
Tanenbaum is the owner of electoral-vote.com.
So the question now is how to remove him from office. Impeachment?
With both an electoral and Congressional majority that's hardly likely.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Well, we were a mirror on www.electoral-vote7.com until we were pulled from DNS earlier this evening. We handled the load without a problem, even while hostrocket.com got crushed. Our services were voluntary and we neither asked for or received any compensation for our mirror. We served about 10 million hits today on the website today and peaked at about 2.5 mil/hour earlier in the day.
I don't know why we and the other non-hostrocket.com mirrors were pulled from the DNS round-robin, but I do know that the decsion to remove us and the other non-hostrocket sites from the DNS round-robin for www.electoral-vote.com was made without consulting us (which is fine, it just seemed a bit odd.) After we were pulled, hostrocket.com basically tipped over and the site went down hard.
olls for kerry, hate america, more polls for kerry, F9/11, more pools for kerry, wrold thinks we dumb.
Result: Bush wins.
PS. Fok U World.
You are probably trolling but I was afraid this might happen as the world pushed harder and harder to influence the US to dump Bush, never expected him to get over 50% of the vote though.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
for ensuring 4 more years of George W. Bush. Yech!
Simple.
We're doomed.
Thomas-
And obviously there is no research benefit to delibrately linking the site to Slashdot over and over again.......
"We survived an unprecedented triple flash crowd and logged it all," writes Tanenbaum. "As it turns out, two of the faculty members in my department, Maarten van Steen and Guillaume Pierre, are doing research on coping with flash crowds. The research issues include how many replicas to set up, where to place them, how fast to deploy them, and how to do it automatically, in real time, and at minimum cost. To simulate proposed algorithms, you need data about real flash crowds and real attacks, preferably at the same time. And boy oh boy do we have data now."