On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:28:37 -0400
Paul Abrahams
Charlie Ti wrote:
I heard a lot of attak by denial of service. But I can't get what it is. Can somebody explain it to me or point a site about it.
Briefly: a Denial of Service attack occurs when an attacker floods a website with spurious, useless Internet packets, thus consuming the website's entire capacity to process incoming traffic. A Distributed Denial of Service attack occurs when the attacker plants zombie processes at other websites and each of those processes produces a Denial of Service attack on command. The hosts for the zombie processes are innocent victims whose resources are used to mount the attack.
And for an interesting recent example with some XP implications, have a look at http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com