Thread: GFY was being hotlinked from the #5 site in the world.
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Old 11-06-2005, 02:38 PM  
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Originally Posted by TexasDreams
Over 11,000 hits in the web log with the referrer string cleary marked as from "http://www.baidu.com"

Most of it was trying to go to this thread http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=537078

only 7 replies in that thread, but 5,686 VIEWS?!?!?!
So it only took 11k+ to take down gfy?


I'd put my money on a ddos with masked referrer info. Hotlinking (alone the idea of hotlinkin bringing down a site?) from a major SE just seems a bit.. fishy.
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