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Sun Grid DOS'd

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-it dept.

feronti writes "So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "

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  1. obligatory by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh, it was slashdotted.

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  2. Cause & Effect by duerra · · Score: 5, Funny

    The outage, Sun reports, began at around 04:43PM, on Wednesday March 22, as every geek in the world seemingly had nothing else to do at the time.

    (Yes, I went there. And yes, that was just unacceptable. I know. hEhE)

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    1. Re:Cause & Effect by buckyboy314 · · Score: 2, Funny

      When the DoS ended, service technicians reportedly found a fresh pot of tea in the output tray.

  3. Sun Grid by Scoria · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, would you say that the Sun Grid should now be considered "off the grid?"

    Don't worry, I'll be here all week.

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  4. DOS? by Eightyford · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sun uses DOS?

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  5. They're lucky by yootje · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're lucky Slashdot didn't linked to the project, otherwise they would've been DDOS'd for the second time.

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  6. brilliant! by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's sheer brilliance! How come I never thought about running DOS on a cluster of machines? What's that? Wrong DOS you say?

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  7. The real cause by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 2, Funny

    One guy set up a distributed job to run this:

    #!/bin/sh
    $0 &
    exec $0

    1. Re:The real cause by Zaatxe · · Score: 2, Funny

      I like "while(1) {fork();}" better...

      My operating system teacher told us about this one and told us never to do that. Needless to say that a dude wrote, compiled and run this code like 5 minutes after the end of the class... in our main server... pfff...

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  8. The summary forgot to mention the rest by moochfish · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, it didn't take long... CNET is reporting that Sun's new Grid computing service (reported yesterday) has already been the victim of a DDOS attack. "

    ...As thousands of hackers asked The Grid... What is The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything?

  9. Re: Denial of Service, abbreviated DoS by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Funny

    As opposed to Distributed Denial of Service, DDoS, which is when all the girls you know conspire not to give you any.

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  10. To summarize... by gurutc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Proves that 'If you build it, they will come.'

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  11. Re:Jackasses by mizhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Probably has something to do with this:

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

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  12. Re:Jackasses by mav[LAG] · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know you've been on Slashdot for too long when:
    • you recognize that URL instantly
    • you still laugh out loud without having to click through


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