... When they turn the servers (connections?)back ON ? If I was a packet monkey (and I'm not)... I might just write a script in the 16 hours of downtime to connect to lots of stuff. First one wins, right? I'm sure there are lots of other *really* neat things to try when the switch is turned on ? Can you say packetfest? This is a stupid idea. Isn't the self-imposed DoS just a big 'ol netsplit ? The other side of this is that the admins *have* considered this issue, and have throttled connections planned, perhaps even a little bothunt/k-linefest on connect. hmmm. This could be a good way to find them as most of the intitial clients will be bots. Maybe I don't know anything, but I created this here account and just had to use it for something .. Have a nice day -BrewX@efnet