does anyone know what ddos is?

[Phaded]

explain.

 

[pintoca]

Distributed Denial of Service Attack

 

[rudeboyja]

It's a Denial of Service attack usually done by DNS poisioning or some soft of buffer overflow.

 

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./smurf

 

[Dial_tone]

its when hackers infect and control computers all over the world and use the combined resources to attack one computer, usually a web server. They spread the software thru email or getting you to click web links which install it on your computer.

 

[Bonkme2]

This is what happens...take EliteFitness for example.
If you look at the topic page you can see that on an average day there are maybe 3500 people reading the various topics. All those people ask for new pages (discussion threads) maybe once every 15 seconds (that's purely hypothetical). The server computer can handle that kind of traffic without the slightest problem.

With a well planned DDOS attack, a script-kiddie (hacker) will try to gain control of hundreds or thousands of computers, and have them request pages (or some type of information) from a website server CONSTANTLY, over and over again.

So if someone can control 5000 computers, and have them request info from Elite 2x per second, that would be 10000 pages of information the servers would have to dish out every second, as opposed to 350 that they may get now. That much traffic could bring the server to its knees, effectively shutting the site down to normal traffic.

(The numbers were just for example, but the idea is the same)