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Info - Optimus-Prime - 04-11-2010
dont want to sound like a noob but what dose DDOS mean and how dose it stop a server running
Info - Lancelot9 - 04-11-2010
(deliberate?) denial of service. Forgot what the first word means. Look up denial of service - there is a thread about it.
Info - Akura - 04-11-2010
Someone pings it so much it crashes.
And therefore can't run or gets damaged.
Simplest way to put it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
Info - Boss - 04-11-2010
A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack, basically involves a number of compromised computers (e.g. a botnet) being ordered to repeatedly send garbage packets to a given IP address.
This particular one isn't possible to block. The repeated ping requests are, but the one hitting us is literally billions if not trillions of useless UDP packets.
Info - Lancelot9 - 04-11-2010
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...c=65794&hl=