Friday, May 23, 2008

Spirit was willing, but servers were weak

The Colorado Rockies offered a terse explanation for the ticket fiasco, saying only that the team and its fans had been victims of an "external malicious attack."

Computer experts late Monday were a lot more talkative.

Dave Bahr explained it this way: Imagine rush hour traffic is approaching downtown Denver, and someone with a sick sense of humor purposely sends "a whole bunch of cars out there and parks them on the highways" leading into the city, clogging the system.

Bahr, chairman of the computer science department at Regis University, calls it "a denial of service attack" that overloads the system.

Alek Komarnitsky, a Lafayette computer systems administrator, agreed that's a possibility. But he wondered about the Rockies explanation, saying in an e-mail "it certainly would be a convenient excuse for the problems today."

"A skeptic might wonder that perhaps they figured out the root cause of today's problem and figured this might be a way to come out smelling like a rose on it," he wrote.

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