At 11:28 AM 6/5/01, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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.
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