Posted: 6/12/2006 7:05 AM
Post subject: Network traffic things
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Bisqwit
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Last Friday night, my site was featured on the frontpage of a popular internet news site, http://www.digg.com/ . It caused an amount of traffic that made my site unavailable for some time. I sent a query to my ISP asking why does that happen; there is nothing wrong in my bandwidth or the server's capabilities. This is the reply I received (translated):
Netsonic wrote:
Hello New connections cannot be formed if the RAM of the DTE is exhausted. Concurrent connections are really high in the port of your subscriber line; they are at least 2000 all the time with the last 24h maximum being over 2500. Not many DTEs can handle even half of that amount gracefully.
(DTE=data terminal equipment, aka. modem) This explanation seems plausible. I bet the BitTorrent tracker is the major culprit behind the amount of connections. Now thinking of ways to apply TNSe's idea of harnessing a Linux box as a DTE.
Posted: 6/12/2006 8:01 AM
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ventuz
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They linked to your mario gif section, how lame.
Posted: 6/12/2006 8:05 AM
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Bisqwit
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ventuz wrote:
They linked to your mario gif section, how lame.
No, that is how Internet works. I actually appreciated that. The page is not a sole property of the Nesvideos website. It's a webpage in the Internet. (The page in question being this: http://tasvideos.org/SuperMarioBrosTricks.html)