Sun Grid DOS'd

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. "

obligatory

[Orrin Bloquy]

Oh, it was slashdotted.

Cause & Effect

[duerra]

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)

Sun Grid

[Scoria]

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

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

DOS?

[Eightyford]

Sun uses DOS?

They're lucky

[yootje]

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

brilliant!

[gEvil (beta)]

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?

The real cause

[I Like Pudding]

One guy set up a distributed job to run this:

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

The summary forgot to mention the rest

[moochfish]

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?

Re: Denial of Service, abbreviated DoS

[Black Parrot]

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

Re:The real cause

[Zaatxe]

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...

To summarize...

[gurutc]

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

Re:Jackasses

[mizhi]

Probably has something to do with this:

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

Re:Cause & Effect

[buckyboy314]

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

Re:Jackasses

[mav[LAG]]

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