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UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video

Posted by timothy on from the oopsie-daisy dept.

An anonymous reader submits "It seems that the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq decided to make a spoof of a Tony Christie video, which was recently re-released by Peter Kay for Comic Relief. However, the video file was over 50MB and it took out various e-mail systems, including those at RAF Strike Command. Despite the inadvertant denial of service attack, the MoD said the spoof was 'brilliant.'"

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  1. Re:Where can we get it now? by StonedRat · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the BBC site:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4554083.stm

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  2. Re:Mail Servers by jessecurry · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not sure if I should mod this troll, funny, or insightful...oh well too late now :)

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  3. Brilliant! by utexaspunk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Brilliant!

  4. 52mb email attachments? by Obliviously · · Score: 1, Redundant

    They "emailed" the video, which caused too many people to download it?

    This sounds like web traffic. You would think the Ministry of Defence may incorporate firewalls, proxy servers or QoS. If this was email, why didn't the MoD mail servers refuse such large attachments?

    Besides I didn't think anyone but my network users try to send out 50 mb email attachments...

    1. Re:52mb email attachments? by matth · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Sounds more like lack of admin understanding.. what the heck are you doing allowing a 50MB file into your system?!?!