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Message Storm Knocks NYSE Offline

Posted by Zonk on from the fall-down-go-boom dept.

ninjee writes "The New York Stock Exchange is re-examining its network after it was forced to close four minutes early at 3:56pm on Wednesday (1 June) because of a communications glitch. Trading opened on time (09:30 EDT) the following morning but the outage irked traders and raised questions about the reliability of a network described as 'ultra reliable' following improvements made in the wake the September 11 terrorist attacks. The outage stemmed from a fault in a system designed to distribute market data and operate computer trading systems. NYSE Chief Executive John Thain said that both the main system and its backup were swamped with error messages, Reuters reports. He added that the exchange would carry out remedial work designed to prevent any repetition of the problem."

3 of 163 comments (clear)

  1. SCO, of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Immediately claimed the message storm to be the work of linux hackers

  2. Big deal... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called "leaving early from work".....everyone does it.

  3. Transcript of the message storm by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    JoeTrader: dood, chk out MSFT, 12m volume
    XyxyZ: wtf i sold on margin
    -- NASDUCK has entered the channel
    JoeTrader: rofl!
    NASDUCK: whatsup?
    JoeTrader: sam sold msft on margin before the spike
    NASDUCK: HAHAHA!
    JoeTrader: werd
    XyxyZ: screw you guys
    JoeTrader: OMG roflrofldolololo!!!!!
    NASDUCK: you are such a tool, sam
    JoeTrader: brb, gotta tell the office
    -SYSTEM- JoeTrader has left the channel (sam in a tool)
    -SYSTEM-:NASDUCK has changed the subject to "XyxyZ sold MSFT before the spike today!!!:D:D:D"
    XyxyZ: fu duck. i hope my boss isn't online
    XyxyZ: ops
    XyxyZ: +ops
    -SYSTEM- Hot2Trade has joined the channel
    NASDUCK: nice try, only way to erase that is to crash the server
    Hot2Trade: Sam, I heard that you got the horns of the bull shoved up where the bear don't shine
    XyxyZ: dude this sux hard
    -SYSTEM- JOHN@MLYNCH has joined the channel
    NASDUCK: nice one Hot2Trade. asl?
    Hot2Trade: fu hippy, this is Jerry in at prudential
    NASDUCK: fuc sorry, didn't recognize you :O
    XyxyZ: So if I can down the server, I can erase the subject?
    Hot2Trade: no worries I just changed my nic
    NASDUCK: XyxyZ, you got pwned by the bull
    JOHN@MLYNCH: SAM! HAHAHA I TOLDYOU NOT TO SELL!
    JOHN@MLYNCH: YOU AER
    JOHN@MLYNCH: SUCH A SP
    XyxyZ: i got s cript
    JOHN@MLYNCH: AZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    XyxyZ: take this bitches
    XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
    XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
    XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
    XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
    XyxyZ: THE C THE R THE I THE M THE I THE N THE A THE L
    - SYSTEM - NASDUCK (quit(connection reset by peer))
    - SYSTEM - JOHN@MLYNCH (quit(connection reset by peer))
    - SYSTEM - Hot2Trade (quite(connection reset by peer))
    - SYSTEM - error(91) - rebooting