A regular DOS attack hammers a webserver with thousands of requests per second, essentially shutting it down because it can't handle the traffic. So many requests are coming in that it can't handle responses to anything, including legitimate requests.
A regular DOS attack is easy to fix. You tell the web server to stop accepting requests from that particular IP address or block of IP addresses until the attack stops.
A Distributed DOS attack is more effective. You hammer the target server with requests from many different locations on the internet, meaning that if they block out those blocks of IP addresses, they're also blocking out a huge chunk of what would be regular traffic as well.
True. Although the term geek has been almost totally hijacked by the techie types. These days if you describe yourself as a geek everybody assumes you work with computers. I feel very sorry for the legions of ignored science, role playing and Dr. Who geeks out there :-)
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Date: 2003-02-20 02:46 pm (UTC)A regular DOS attack hammers a webserver with thousands of requests per second, essentially shutting it down because it can't handle the traffic. So many requests are coming in that it can't handle responses to anything, including legitimate requests.
A regular DOS attack is easy to fix. You tell the web server to stop accepting requests from that particular IP address or block of IP addresses until the attack stops.
A Distributed DOS attack is more effective. You hammer the target server with requests from many different locations on the internet, meaning that if they block out those blocks of IP addresses, they're also blocking out a huge chunk of what would be regular traffic as well.
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Date: 2003-02-20 02:47 pm (UTC)Basically flooding a server or IP address with 10000000's of pings a second taking out it's connection.
Done usually using scripts run from a central point.
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Date: 2003-02-21 12:40 am (UTC)*giggles*
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