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Its first online test fails, IGNOU blames rivals

New Delhi: India’s largest distance education university’s first experiment with online testing collapsed within minutes of taking off Saturday, a disaster which the university suspects resulted from a malicious cyber attack. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will now ask the Cyber Crimes Cel  ....Read more

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Prior Testing RequiredBy: Subhash Masih | Saturday , 21 Nov '09 13:13:08 PM Reply | Forward Friends, Give the University one more chance they would do it, but IGNOU please do not create a platform for 9000 students, make is platform for 90,000, but monitor the entries for 9000 students, and yes please check the OS platform too..
case of corruptionBy: kijuuh | Thursday , 5 Nov '09 15:16:02 PM Reply | Forward This is a case of corruption, I would like to request the CBI to raid "Prof Vyas, IGNEAT 2009 coordinator" house, I am sure tomoro there will be another news ststeing "Proff caught with ___ crore Rs in home"
use linux .. moronsBy: Lloyd | Thursday , 5 Nov '09 4:09:19 AM Reply | Forward I am sure their infrastructure is based on Windows.I just love it when stuff like this happens.Their website is hosted on Windows/IIS-6.0. Use a proper operating system like Linux.Idiots.
ignue failure in on line examBy: dev chauhan | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 23:03:11 PM Reply | Forward it should not be done in IGNUE exam.... ignue;s management sould think over it. because by these type of incidents we indian feel ambaresment some time.. ...nd foreigners get a chance to say that it happens in india.
It is nothing but ever increasing traffic on the netBy: sunny | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 22:53:57 PM Reply | Forward It is nothing but ever increasing traffic on the net which is responsible.IGNOU had used Yahoo servers but the site delivery / management was not optimized or managed by professional web acceleration/delivery service providers
IGNOU itself to blame for failure,wake up sibbalBy: L.C.Bilandani | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 19:31:24 PM Reply | Forward IGNOU itself is to be blamed for failure of the online examination.Such examinations are conducted freely by many universities and institutions since years but IGNOU never took the matter seriously.Why should server crash,definately the IGNOU authorities knew the exact numbers as they had collected exam fee etc from the participants.All this goes to prove that IGNOU is a institution which never believed in efficency and now blames other who didnot get the contract for online exam technology.Again it is a matter of too much corruption in awarding contracts to inefficient firms.Why reputed names in IT industry were not given the work.There are many like Infosys,Wipro,TCS who would have done the job in a fool proof method and they have credentials but they will not give the cut demanded my IGNOU.Sibbal, you talk too much and do very little.You are fit only to create controversies by giving undeserved statements and talk of inviting foriegn universities without setting own house in order.
DOS Attacks are easy to executeBy: Ashutosh Khanna | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 19:08:30 PM Reply | Forward Anyone can attack the server if it is available to outsiders from the Internet. Even the current IGNOU website is designed by absolute morons. Dont hire a fresher to do a professionals work.Microsoft Certified Trainer(NIIT)
YES!!!!! IGNOU MUST DOBy: SUNIL | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 17:57:18 PM Reply | Forward i think ignou must probe the issue in priority
ReBy: Sunny | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 17:48:23 PM Reply | Forward What i can is that,I am not surprised.These things are not in the control of the test conducting authority.If there are fixed centres from which the tests are to be conducted,then from future one thing can be done.Server should be configured such that it allows request from only ip address' of 5 centres only.Thus the network traffic will be in limit,and the mischievious people will not be able to access the server.
language sequenceBy: Yogesh | Tuesday , 3 Nov '09 17:35:38 PM Reply | Forward On a different note - Why is Marathi written at the end? were to be given in seven languages — English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Assamese and Marathi .... not even alphabetical list .....
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