Some political action groups probably decided to step up the astroturfing. You know, enter your email address here and we'll send out some boilerplate nonsense to a bunch of congressmen and senators. Block or firewall the worst of them, whether left or right leaning, and I guess that should leave the servers clear for real users ... --srs On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Ernie Rubi <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu> wrote:
Hi folks, just musing...
From an ops perspective, wonder just how much traffic caused:
"This morning, our engineers sounded the alarms ... and we have installed a digital version of a traffic cop. We enacted stopgaps that we planned for last night. We had hoped we didn't have to." --Jeff Ventura, communications director for the House's chief administrator. (from http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.website/index.html)
Don't .govs have enough b/w or at least ability to add b/w in order to satisfy their 'public outreach/information' role? (not a rhetorical question...hehe)
It also seems to me that adding load balancing, firewall, throttling, etc methods for traffic shaping might actually make the problem worse by adding yet another layer(s) of hardware/software that may be prone to bottlenecking or overloading.
whaddayathink?
Ernie M. Rubi Network Engineer AMPATH/CIARA Florida International Univ, Miami
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