[WikiEN-l] Re: DOS attack?

Mon Jul 28 03:35:49 UTC 2003

a.crossman at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
> Question: if Wikipedia was under a DOS attack of some sort, would we 
> know about it? I ask because there was an incident of repeated 
> vandalism today, and just after that was dealt with, Wikipedia became 
> very (very) slow.
> 
> So I just thought a DOS attack was a possibility. Is it? :-)
> 
> 

Very unlikely. There's so much nastier things you could do to Wikipedia 
than slow it down somewhat. Like deleting all the images, or using 
Special:Movepage to shuffle the article titles.

-- Tim Starling