On 29 Nov 2004, at 21:47, Brian Foster wrote:
> the IRC “regulars” will know that I am an infrequent
> visitor to the IRC --- so I have no idea what today's
> problem was ... but I should say I don't really like
> the idea of a password. on the (admittedly rather
> rare) times I have lurked on the IRC, I cannot recall
> any time where it wasn't someone who I presume is one
> of the “regular” who was annoying ..... ½ ;-)
This wasn't an annoying person - it was a botnet attack which while
being very small scale as such attacks go, nevertheless made #linux
unusable for several hours.
Niall
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