Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
This is what the Nut Roots are doing to WGN-AM in Chicago:
Obama vs. WGN-AMIf you guys in the Robinson family don't get your act together, and get it together soon, then the Nut Roots are going to take down this site, and take it down hard, for the next two months.
The station is coming under attack for offering airtime to controversial author.
by John McCormick and Steven Schmadeke | Tribune staff reporters
September 16, 2008
chicagotribune.comChicago radio station WGN-AM is again coming under attack from the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama for offering airtime to a controversial author. It is the second time in recent weeks the station has been the target of an "Obama Action Wire" alert to supporters of the Illinois Democrat.
Monday night's target was David Freddoso, who the campaign said was scheduled to be on the station from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Chicago time.
Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web
Campaign targets media when attacks aired By John McCormick | Chicago Tribune reporter
12:32 AM CDT, September 17, 2008
chicagotribune.comMuch of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.
Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.
It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.
You need to do several things to the Free Republic infrastructure and have them in place no later than about October 1; among them:
1) Mirror Free Republic to at least two other physical locations around the country - one on the east coast [Washington/NYC/Atlanta], and the other maybe more central [Texas has some large colo's with backbone connectivity].
Right now, I am seeing only two IP resolutions for "www.freerepublic.com" - 209.147.64.200 & 209.147.64.201 - and traceroutes have them [predictably] on the same physical network [I imagine that they are sitting right next to one another in the same server rack]:
2) Turn off as much of the relational structure at Free Republic as is possible, and return to a strictly flat file structure for as much of the content at Free Republic as is possible.[n - 2] mg-1.a01.mlpsca01.us.da.verio.net [n - 1] 128.242.105.82 [n] 209.147.64.200 The current relational structure is hopelessly broken, and the negotiations between the caching frontend and the relational backend are breaking down multiple times a day.
Again: THE RELATION STRUCTURE MUST BE DISCARDED - THIS IS IMPERATIVE.
[Furthermore, it is vastly easier to propagate a flat file structure to multiple physical sites around the country; trying to propagate a relational structure, in real time, with relatively limited funds for bandwidth, is essentially impossible.]
3) As things really heat up in October & November, I'd consider banning [temporarily] all non-political content, and instituting an aggressive policy of putting on probation the accounts of users who post lengthy, inane, unfocused, meandering, off-topic soliloquies - concentrating instead on promoting the work of people [like Kristinn] who are doing original investigative reporting and who are presenting their results in simple, straightforward, declarative arguments.
Along those lines, I'd move aggressively to upgrade the quality of the moderators who are policing the content at Free Republic - the quality of the moderation is utterly unpredictable from hour to hour - one hour there will seem to be a moderator who "gets it", and the next hour, it's as if that moderator's shift suddenly ended, and we have an utterly clueless moderator in charge of things.
I don't care if you're worried about hurting Granny's feelings if you tell her that she can't moderate for the next two months - we have to get some moderators in here who are up-to-date on current events and who understand the difference between original investigative reporting [regarding e.g. DEM/Obama treason & Bolshevik/Gramscian subterfuge] and the kinds of "Pray for my Kitty who is having feline leukemia chemotherapy tomorrow morning" threads which seem to waste so much CPU time & bandwidth at this site.
Thanks for the kind words. I surely hope Jim and John have some statregerie in place.
In case you haven't noticed, Search is completely broken, and has been for months now, because the server can't take the CPU load of searching.
We don't need searching, we need an active, robust, healthy server which the Nut Roots can't take down.
Right now, as things stand, the server is taking ITSELF down because it can't withstand the load.
A month from now, when the Nut Roots start pointing their attacks at this site in earnest, the server is going to melt down and set the server room on fire.
And that doesn't even address the perilousness of the single point of failure caused by having all the servers at the end of the same pipe - all the Nut Roots have to do is flood the pipe with PINGS [or other ICMP traffic], and the pipe will be hopelessly clogged.
Again, these people committed a federal felony in breaking into Sarah Palin's private email today - if you think for a microsecond that they wouldn't hesitate to take down Free Republic [and put an end to original reporting like Kristinn's], then you're insane.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
I imagine they are grateful for your help.
Loose libs spill tips.
LOL.
Prayers for your pumpkin sent.
Been expecting that for at least 6 months.
CONGRATS ON ALL THE GREAT SUCCESSES
of your’s and John’s professional expertise
and all the rest of your input to the ‘home’ we share so much time in.
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: For thou art with me;
Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies;
Thou annointest my head with oil; My cup runneth over.
Typo...
Isn't there a song...something about arosen bloomin?
They still need to have the pipe to push it through.
Prepare for disappointment...
Obama is an absolute scare and it amazes me how many lemmings are supporting this character.
My source of political gossip in New York sent me some information about Obama and his close associations with the dregs of the world.
This guy Obama is an absolute scumbag and there is not another truthful way to put it in words.
I think it was ‘a rose in bloom’.
: )
And I’m not about to spread our database all over creation either. It’s here under lock and key and John maintains strict security. It’s in a secure environment and the provider provides excellent, reliable service. We’ve had a few problems recently, but they’re just growing pains. And the new servers should take care of that.
I have no idea how you meant this- possible it was just advice you think they need, but it sounds a little arrogant. This might might have worked better as a private email.
Good idea......I’ll send some largesse when the call goes out. I don’t understand the technical issues but I didn’t like those empty feelings in the pit of my stomach when I had continuing problems getting FR to open on my machine.
. . . to put it way toooo nicely.
I appreciate the perspective on lock and key.
Guess prayer will have to protect the key location(s)!
FR is just soooooo critical to all that’s good and left of our Constitution and Republic . . . sometimes it seems that one location is a little unwise for something so critical.
And, I have no doubts that John and your professional expertise is top flight in terms of net security.
Some of us just like all the modes of ‘insurance’ we could beg, borrow or pray in . . . for something we view as so critical to our and our Nation’s wellfare . . . and something we just happen to Love a dozen different ways for more reasons.
I haven't had any errors.
We don't need searching, we need an active, robust, healthy server which the Nut Roots can't take down.
Searching is extremely helpful. In fact, a good search reduces load because people will be able to find articles and thus not repost them.
Right now, as things stand, the server is taking ITSELF down because it can't withstand the load.
I'll bet anything FR is using MySQL, which is already a very lightweight system, especially if it's an older version. You can't get more efficient with text files.
And that doesn't even address the perilousness of the single point of failure caused by having all the servers at the end of the same pipe
That is a completely different, and valid, issue. Bringing up slave nodes and using the replication feature of the database would help, and help with the load because the main database server would be mostly writing with the others handling the read load.
OTOH, that wouldn't help much with a large distributed attack, as they'd simply flood all the nodes. There are other ways to deal with ICMP and SYN floods, mostly in the network before it even hits the server.
Again, these people committed a federal felony in breaking into Sarah Palin's private email today
I wouldn't put it past Obama's flock. But the group that did this wasn't working for him. Anonymous is just a bunch of, well, I don't know how to describe them. They've done stuff all over the Internet. Their favorite target though is Scientology.
GretaWire got nailed around 7:30 Pacific on the Palin E-mail opinion vote.
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