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[SPEC] SOTA counter.
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Dyne
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Location: San Antonio, Texas

 		Am I the only one who laughed when they saw it "Roll over"? Razz

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:29 pm
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PONGpaddle
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 		You know, some people call this a denial of service attack. Wink

PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:42 pm
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rose
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You know, some people call this a denial of service attack. Wink


I get what you mean and I wondered about that as well. (edit to add:Sorry if the following sounds too much like a lecture. I think it does, but that isn't my intent. Look at it this way, we showed already how well we can work as a group. Smile )

My understanding is that DoS attacks are made with the direct intent of blocking legitimate users from the site. In this case, the players are the legitimate users of the site. Also, the assumption was made that the site was designed with the expectation of handling a large volume of traffic, and, in fact, I didn't see it go down at any time this afternoon.

This idea was purely spec from the players based, in part I think, of the requirement of 777/777 from i love bees. I haven't seen this done in a game before, although PerplexCity did have a live event where we needed to get a certain number of hits on a page to open up new levels (if I remember correctly.)

But, yeah, I wouldn't recommend this as a regular ARG tool for players. Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:53 pm
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sarge2552
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 		yea....im not sure if anyone else here is registered at args.bungie.org, but a topic about the extreme counter speed on SOTA was brought up just recently, i just posted on there that we tryed to "break" the counter to see what happened.....

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th30p3rat0r
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 		Wow, even though I pretty much knew nothing would happen when 1 mil was crossed when i suggested doing this fun thing, I gotta say, I'm glad that we have people out there who will work as a group for a common goal, even if its for fun.

definitely keeps the spark of the arg moving along, in my mind atleast
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thebruce
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 		well, I'm sure the webmaster will have fun seeing that enormous spike in web traffic in a matter of hours...! Shocked

At least, for those who refreshed the SOTA pages rather than the 3rd party counter link Razz
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:27 am
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Cloaked Hunter
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 		Yeah, perhaps I should confess. Using a little tool called siege, I'm able to achieve approximately 250 HTTP requests per second, thus causing that counter to increase at a rate of 900000 per hour. Needless to say, I didn't run it for long. All in good fun...

For example:
Code:
Lifting the server siege...      done.
Transactions:                 401038 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                1749.13 secs
Data transferred:             110.30 MB
Response time:                  0.33 secs
Transaction rate:             229.28 trans/sec
Throughput:                     0.06 MB/sec
Concurrency:                   74.93
Successful transactions:      401038
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:           21.36
Shortest transaction:           0.16

I give you . Yay. Time for sleep.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:20 am
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redct
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 		Shocked 250/sec? That's a lot better than my 'while echo; do curl -s $counter; done'
That only got 5/6 per second.

PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:11 am
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SGMX
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 		So we got one-and-a-half million hits in just a few hours? Never underestimate the power of people with too much time on their hands...

PostPosted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:30 am
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turbov21
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Code:
use LWP::Simple;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $cnt = 0;
my $number = 10000;

while ($cnt < $number)
{
    my $x = get("http://www.easycounter.com/counter.php?sota");
   
    if ($x)
    {
        print $cnt++ . "\n";
    }
    else
    {
        die "No.";
    }
}


I'm using that little Perl script above to wank the counter, in case 7,777,777 means anything.

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