{"id":1086,"date":"2010-01-18T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:50:25","slug":"sometimes-somebody-just-nails-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Somebody Just Nails It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a thread underway on Slashdot right now involving a slightly arcane issue in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpan.org\/\">Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)<\/a> is receiving <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/01\/18\/0749208\/Microsoft-Bots-Effectively-DDoSing-Perl-CPAN-Testers?art_pos=3\">20-30 HTTP requests per second&#8230;from IP addresses owned by Microsoft<\/a>. If this makes no sense to you, let it ride; it&#8217;s not important for the point I&#8217;m making. CPAN&#8217;s servers are so tied up honoring all those requests that they&#8217;re mostly inaccessible. The Slashdot discussion focuses on the question of whether Microsoft is doing this deliberately, or whether the torrent of requests is a side-effect of something else they&#8217;re doing. (A third possibility, that Microsoft&#8217;s servers have been badly hacked by DDOS bots, is possible but seems unlikely to me.) The question cooks down to whether all the action from Microsoft&#8217;s subnet is due to malice or incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>A chap on Slashdot named Lloyd Bryant pretty much <a href=\"http:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=1514252&amp;cid=30806976\">nailed it<\/a>: &#8220;Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice. See Government, US.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoo-boy. Somebody please give that man the Nobel Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thread underway on Slashdot right now involving a slightly arcane issue in which the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is receiving 20-30 HTTP requests per second&#8230;from IP addresses owned by Microsoft. If this makes no sense to you, let it ride; it&#8217;s not important for the point I&#8217;m making. CPAN&#8217;s servers are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}