At 06:40 PM 1/21/2002 +0000, you wrote: >I have been seeing the term 'slashdotted' come up a few times, both here and in other >lists. I am not sure if I am just dense, or if I am too new to this to know the lore, >but what does the term refer to?
Presumably you know about the geek-news site "http://slashdot.org/"; It's a very popular place and what happens its a story will be posted, containing a URL to another article, or a software download, or something similar, i.e. not on slashdot's server but elsewhere on the Internet. What would happen is, if it's a small server, it would be totally overwhelmed by "Slashdoters", meaning people who read Slashdot, going over to look at the article or download the software (or whatever). IT would be like a Denial-of-Service attack, except that rather then being malicious, it was unintentionally caused by a sudden huge increase in traffic. Kinda like being trampled by the crowd. Sometimes the person's network connection would be so saturated that they wouldn't even be able to send email. Anyway, the term has come to mean "what happens when a huge amount of people suddenly view your site/download your whatever/or otherwise connect to your computer" until you're server is totally swamped with traffic. Hope that makes sense :-) >Thanks for filling the knowledge gap. >Ian. >Ian Truelsen >Masters program in Philosophy >University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada >BA (Wilfrid Laurier University) >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Current favourite quote: >"No great civilisation likes forests." >K.F. O'Connor >Lincoln College, Christchurch, New Zealand > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
