Originally Posted by Michael the German

I have a general question I wand answered before I try something harmful (to the Iranian backbone instead just gerdab.ir):

I just remembered that a while a go I got the webpage of a convention to crash by accident (at least I'm pretty sure it was me, since I did it again the next day):

I did some data mining once, getting the addresses of companies that attended that convention out from the homepage, by using one of those tools that scan the page for you, look for keywords, save content to your harddrive so you can further filter it later etc.

Being new (back then) to this matter it seems I had the software running on pretty server-unfriendly settings - opening too many threads at once, things like that. Which after a while sent the server down - it didn't block my IP, it was gone for several hours (until, I assume, someone noticed and reset it).

Now - before I try achieving something similar on gerdab.ir: I suspect that doing that would be similar to attempting a DDos attack - I mean possibly blocking the Iranian backbone for our friends as well?

If someone more tech-savy than me understands what I try to explain and can tell me it *isn't* bad for Iranian net, I'd be happy to give it a try on gerdab.ir, otherwise, of course, not.