When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS

When RSS Traffic Looks Like a DDoS 443

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:32PM from the which-is-most-of-the-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Infoworld's CTO Chad Dickerson says he has a love/hate relationship with RSS. He loves the changes to his information production and consumption, but he hates the behavior of some RSS feed readers. Every hour, Infoworld "sees a massive surge of RSS newsreader activity" that "has all the characteristics of a distributed DoS attack." So many requests in such a short period of time are creating scaling issues. " We've seen similiar problems over the years. RSS (or as it should be called, "Speedfeed") is such a useful thing, it's unfortunate that it's ultimately just very stupid.

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RSS maybe (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:33PM (#9752005)

RSS may be ultimatly stupid but you didn't get first post did you! rookie!

RHS (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:34PM (#9752016)

we need RHS... really HARD syndication

Re:RSS needs better TCP stacks (Score:3, Funny)

by genixia ( 220387 ) writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:45PM (#9752182)

Yeah, because there's nothing like using a sledgehammer to crack a hazlenut.

For starters, how about the readers play nice and spread their updates around a bit instead of all clamoring at the same time.

Re:What about a scheduler? (Score:5, Funny)

by cmdr_beeftaco ( 562067 ) writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:50PM (#9752260)

Bad idea. Everyone knows that most headlines are made at the top of the hour. Thus, A.M. radio always give news headlines "at-the-top-of-hour." RSS reader should be given the same timely updates.
Related to this is the fact that most traffic accidents happen "on the twenties." Human nature is a curious and seemingly very predictable thing.

Re:Editorializing in the blurb (Score:2, Funny)

by sohojim ( 676510 ) writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:55PM (#9752326) Homepage

Oh, you mean editors editorializing? Probably.

Re:Still haven't tried these newfangled RSS reader (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @03:56PM (#9752335)

It's "informative by association." His post will attract answers. (Well, answers and people who bitch about moderation.)

Re:RHS (Score:3, Funny)

by shadowcabbit ( 466253 ) writes: <cx AT thefurryone DOT net> on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @04:08PM (#9752511) Journal

we need RHS... really HARD syndication

That's nothing compared to RMS, which (according to RMS) stands for GNU/Recursive Meta-Syndication.

Re:Revision of the Standard (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @04:16PM (#9752623)

that's three words, idiot

I can see the Fox special now (Score:2, Funny)

by jrexilius ( 520067 ) writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @04:17PM (#9752640) Homepage

"When RSS Feeders Attack".. news at 11:00..

Re:Can't this be throttled? (Score:5, Funny)

by hunterx11 ( 778171 ) writes: <hunterx11@g[ ]l.com ['mai' in gap]> on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @04:52PM (#9753083) Homepage Journal

From now on, instead of telling people to fuck off I'll just say:

User-agent: You Disallow: /

Re:What about a scheduler? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @05:14PM (#9753344)

maybe military time? 20 = 5 pm

I sure hope you're not in the military. If you are then I highly recommend you make sure you haven't missed any appointments recently.

Re:Still haven't tried these newfangled RSS reader (Score:2, Funny)

by The Grassy Knoll ( 112931 ) writes: on Wednesday July 21, 2004 @04:56AM (#9757721)

>On Windows I use RSS Bandit

Pronounced "ArseBandit"?
That's priceless, to a Brit at least.

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RSS maybe (Score:3, Funny)

RHS (Score:1, Funny)

Re:RSS needs better TCP stacks (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What about a scheduler? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Editorializing in the blurb (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Still haven't tried these newfangled RSS reader (Score:0, Funny)

Re:RHS (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Revision of the Standard (Score:1, Funny)

I can see the Fox special now (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Can't this be throttled? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What about a scheduler? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Still haven't tried these newfangled RSS reader (Score:2, Funny)

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