7 May
2005
7 May
'05
9:03 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
The dresden dolls announced recently that they were going on tour with
Nine Inch Nails. Wonder of wonder, suddenly their website was sucking
up to 45mbps sustained. Maybe it had to do with all those live
performance videos & mp3 files. Anyways... I've spent a lot of time
dealing with that (as well as the politics of getting them to pay for
the bandwidth). bw_mod has become my friend.
I guess getting 45's may be a little hard from them. With all the
download stuff just what do Bands sell anymore?
Then, for the past two days I noticed some network
oddities (you know,
when an admin can't quite put their finger on it but knows something
is amiss)... well, about 6pm tonight I found the culprit. One of the
servers that is colocated with us by another band (not managed by us)
got hacked. I found all kinds of wonderful udp flood scripts, paypal
scripts, irc bots, etc. When will admins learn that their laziness
affects others. Anyways, they've charged me with cleaning up their mess.
Install unix on a old PDP ... that may speed things up. Runs and ducks.