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A technical failure in a data-center switch caused Slashdot to flood itself with bogus traffic, shutting down the service for 75 minutes. Honestly, the only reason I'm posting this is so I can include that ^^^ headline. It's the headline I was born to write, srsly.

As a precautionary measure I rebooted each core just to make sure it wasn't anything silly. After the cores came back online they instantly went back to 100% fabric CPU usage and started shedding connections again. So slowly I started going through all the switch ports on the cores, trying to isolate where the traffic was originating. The problem was all the cabinet switches were showing 10 Gbit/sec of traffic, making it very hard to isolate. Through the process of elimination I was finally able to isolate the problem down to a pair of switches... After shutting the downlink ports to those switches off, the network recovered and everything came back. I fully believe the switches in that cabinet are still sitting there attempting to send 20Gbit/sec of traffic out trying to do something — I just don't know what yet.

Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted (via Hack the Planet)

[#1 posted by jmiao, February 10, 2009 3:24 AM]

"It's the headline I was born to write, srsly."

cory. you're blowing my mind.

[#2 posted by guy_jin, February 10, 2009 3:25 AM]

at first I read the subject, "slashdot, slashdot, slashdot!", kinda like "marcia, marcia, marcia!"

[#3 posted by Anonymous, February 10, 2009 3:39 AM]

shouldn't it be "./."? or ././. ... ./././. ... etc...? i mean, the possibilities are (apparently) endless.

[#4 posted by Anonymous, February 10, 2009 3:48 AM]

As a low number /. member.

Haw Haw!

Seriously, I would have thought that those servers were the most bullet-proof of all the internetdom considering the subject and age of the site.

I can safely say there is a good chance of a secondary crash when the discussion of the first crash hits the main board.

Think of a Slashdot effect inverted!

A

[#5 posted by Dorkomatic, February 10, 2009 4:44 AM]

Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo?
Boing boing and boing boing digg gigg and slashdot slashdot!? Wow.

[#6 posted by Eduardo Padoan, February 10, 2009 4:52 AM]

[Insert rant about /. quality in the recent years]

Srsly, "Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live"? WTF?! I really dont want to RTFA, because from their summary, it really sucks. Complaints about semantics and personality-cult comparisions.

Darwinism implies an ideology adhering to one man's dictates, like Marxism, says Safina

All because of a -ism. Them you discover that the article title is a complete sansionalistic bait.

[#7 posted by Eduardo Padoan, February 10, 2009 4:58 AM]

s/sansionalistic/sensationalistic/
I blame lack of coffee. Or too much of it.

[#8 posted by afo, February 10, 2009 5:14 AM]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/273969765_6f81580ef0_o.gif

[#9 posted by Neko, February 10, 2009 5:50 AM]

/./../.

[#10 posted by Anonymous, February 10, 2009 6:02 AM]

(for some reason BoingBoing refuses to let me sign in today!)

Those Marklars marklared their marklar!

[#11 posted by kaiza, February 10, 2009 6:50 AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UxYHvsoKNI

I have fond memories of actually singing this at a karaoke joint in Japan.

[#12 posted by jonoellis, February 10, 2009 7:00 AM]

Best. Title. Evar.

[#13 posted by Xeno, February 10, 2009 7:07 AM]

(in my best comic book guy voice)
BEST TITLE EVER!

[#14 posted by anil, February 10, 2009 7:17 AM]

whats next, boing boing boing boing's boing boing

[#15 posted by arkizzle / Moderator, February 10, 2009 7:34 AM]

Cory, a seminal moment; well caught.

Neko@7, very clever :)

[#16 posted by CoquiELF, February 10, 2009 7:49 AM]

bOingbOing bOingbOing'd - it may happen someday.

I feel like I'm in Captain Kangaroo

[#17 posted by mdh, February 10, 2009 7:53 AM]

Whatever you do Jen, do not enter "Google" into Google. You'll break the internet.

[#18 posted by jahknow, February 10, 2009 8:15 AM]

INT. RESTAURANT - NIGHT

Malkovich pops into a chair in a swank night club. He's
wearing a tuxedo. The woman across the table from him is
also Malkovich, but in a gown. He looks around the
restaurant. Everyone is Malkovich in different clothes.
Malkovich is panicked. The girl Malkovich across the
table looks at him seductively, winks and talks.

GIRL MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich
Malkovich...

Malkovich looks confused. The Malkovich waiter approaches,
pen and pad in hand, ready to take their orders.

WAITER MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich?

GIRL MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich
Malkovich.

WAITER MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich.
(Turning to Malkovich)
Malkovich?

Malkovich looks down at the menu. Every item is "Malkovich."
He screams:

MALKOVICH
Malkovich!

The waiter jots it down on his pad.

WAITER MALKOVICH
Malkovich.

Malkovich pushes himself away from the table and runs for
the exit. He passes the stage where a girl singer Malkovich
is singin sensuously into the microphone. She is backed by a
'40's style big band of Malkoviches.

SINGING MALKOVICH
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich
Malkovich...

Malkovich flies through the back door.

CUT TO:

[#19 posted by x3n0s, February 10, 2009 9:27 AM]

Yo dawg.

[#20 posted by Banksynergy, February 10, 2009 9:36 AM]

#16 - Yo dawg I heard you like slashdot so we put some slashdot in your slashdot so you can slashdot while you... aww, you get it.

[#21 posted by aelfscine, February 10, 2009 10:12 AM]

So slashdot's a shadow of its former self? I haven't been there in a while, but have heard a lot of complaints about it lately.

[#22 posted by Gilbert Wham, February 10, 2009 10:19 AM]

#7: that is beautiful. Seriously, that's as good as Hix Nix Stix Pix.

[#23 posted by Takuan, February 10, 2009 10:26 AM]

what's the term for this kind of construction? Best I ever came up with was Hawking Hawking,Haw King hawking hawking hawkings. (see if you can make it out)

[#24 posted by carlmorris, February 10, 2009 10:40 AM]

Since we've now gone crazy with the headlines, here's a real one from the UK referring to former minister Michael Foot.

FOOT HEADS ARMS BODY

[#25 posted by Banksynergy, February 10, 2009 11:02 AM]

#24 - oh god so good

[#26 posted by jahknow, February 10, 2009 11:15 AM]

I didn't belive Foot Heads Arms Body until I saw it! Actually, more accurate nowadays would be "Foot Headed Arms Body," but, thanks nonetheless.

D.C. had its Dick Armey, not to be confused with Dick Army.

[#27 posted by franko, February 10, 2009 4:53 PM]

i'm so glad that somebody mentioned malkovich, because that's all i can think of right now.