BitTorrent Servers Under DDoS Attacks

jZnat writes "CNet News.com reports that popular BitTorrent tracker hosts such as Suprnova and LokiTorrent underwent DDoS attacks on Wednesday (I'll bet you noticed). The culprits are primarily unknown, but these sites were flooded beyond control from the attack. This appears to be striking an interest in revising the BT protocol and Suprnova's interest in making their own protocol."

Comments

Come on

[Anonymous Coward]

We all know it's the MPAA and RIAA.

Stinks of RIAA

[Anonymous Coward]

RIAA adopting Lycos's tactics?

To add insult to injury...

[Infinityis]

As if that weren't enough, now they'll most certainly feel some variant of the Slashdot effect as people try to check it out. Way to go!

Re:To add insult to injury...

[MC Negro]

As if that weren't enough, now they'll most certainly feel some variant of the Slashdot effect

No linky in the blerb. Most of slashdot has adopted the custom of simply middle-clicking a link to a new tab and then avoiding all forms of digesting information from that opened link (it's what's fashionable now). I seriously doubt the average Slashdot reader will take the time to resort to the arcane practice of TYPING URLs simply to simulate the view of smoldering server ashes. They'll wait until IBM releases the their next voice-to-text software program ("UNCLE SPEAK & SPELL, ENTERPRISE EDITION") for that.

Although I was hoping for a link in the blerb. Maybe that would induct "Best Gang-Raping of a Server" into the awards section.

I can see it now...

[Infinityis]

Future Slashdot headline: Lycos apologizes for wrongly targeted DDoS attacks

Dammit!

[halcyon1234]

I knew I shouldn't have installed that new screensaver from the MPAA.

Huh?

[WIAKywbfatw]

I don't know what the hell your statistics prove,or even if they're right, but I do know that, wherever he or she is, your high school mathematics teacher would be proud of you.

Have you given serious thought to a career in marketing or PR? With that kind of commitment to mumbo jumbo and ridiculous statistics you'd be a natural.

Re:Small-timers get it too

[m00nun1t]

I had a look at 127.0.0.1 to see what "videos" you are talking about. There's some really kinky videos there - pervert.

Netcraft confirms it:

[JThundley]

It is official; Netcraft confirms: Bittorrent is dying.

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Bittorrent community when IDC confirmed that Bittorrent market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all P2P services. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Bittorrent has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Bittorrent is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Bittorrent's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Bittorrent faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Bittorrent because Bittorrent is dying. Things are looking very bad for Bittorrent. As many of us are already aware, Bittorrent continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Azureus is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Azureus developers Bob Wentz and J.D. Stone only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Azureus is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

BitTornado leader TheShad0w that there are 7000 users of BitTornado. How many users of burst! are there? Let's see. The number of BitTornado versus burst! posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 BitTornado users. Bittorrent posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of BitTornado posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dbblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

Fact: *BSD is dying

Jesus Christ this trolling shit is hard to do. I know I left the other half with BSD :(

Re:Netcraft confirms it:

[hrm]

You can tell slashdot culture is going down the drain when even the trolls can't be bothered to send in a properly updated post.

Not just you, but the old people in Korea and Soviet Russia are absent as well. And who's imagining beowulf clusters of bittorrent sites these days, even if it's in Japan?

The ./ posts confirm it: trolling is dying!

Re:Why do you keep mentioning SUPRnova damn it

[johannesg]

Just to clarify, the site he is talking about is this one. What he is trying to say is this: if the bad guys ever find out about it, they might try to do something stupid and most likely illegal such as performing a DDOS. And we really don't want it to go down, since it is a most excellent source for TV shows, movies, games, and music.

I guess the first rule of www.suprnova.org is: don't talk about www.suprnova.org.

Re:Some possibilities to check out

[jimand]

I must be a long-time member. I don't think I've ever been able to respond to a "low slashdot ID" comment with "that's not low, you nube".