At 8:43 PM -0600 10/22/07, Ski Dawg wrote: >On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 22:11 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> > > Which OS do the rockies run? >> > > >> > > >>http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-rockies-seriestickets&prov=ap&type=lgns >> > > >> > > Makes me wonder and others as well, >> >> The story does have the name of the company though (Paciolan) and >> if you search for their job openings you'll find them recruiting >> on college campuses for folks with Oracle, DB2, java, and Linux >> experience, so it seems likely that Linux is the underlying >> system. > >Maybe they have decided to move to Linux from their current platform ;) > >Anyway, there has been an update that says the site was down (in fact >they claim their entire North American operations where impacted) >because of an attack from an unknown source(s). Ever wonder how all the tickets for some event sell out in less than a minutes? Ticket resellers hire others to do distributed attacks on ticket seller sites, so that all the tickets are sold to the resellers. Doing that just a bit too hard could crash most anything, and result in no tickets sold. So it may have been an attack, or it may have just been ticket reseller fraud that had the effect of an attack. There's big money involved, with ticket markups of 100x, so there may have been more than the usual number of ticket reseller hired attacks this time. They need big servers to sell all the tickets as fast as the ticket resellers are trying to buy them, but those big servers don't serve their intended customers at all, because they have to pay huge markups to the ticket resellers to get tickets they should have been able to buy for a modest markup. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
