CNN News :: Internet Health Report Denial of Service *DoS* - means tons and tons of bad packets are being sent across the internet, and when a server gets these bad packets, it sends them back.. you're probably wondering what that does. Well, if it is a small amount, does nothing really, if you were to hit someone on a 10MBPS or a 100MBPS, then it's something. When you send thousands, millions, or in this case right now, billions of bad packets, the server sends them back. This requires the use of bandwidth to recieve and then send back.. which uses a ton of resources if they are being massly hit. So really, when this happens, networks are badly kept up, and your site will run poorly if you are a site on a server this happening on.
Yeh my ISP was effected on Saturday morning. Not the first time recently, just shows how vulnerable the net is.
Meh, that attack is nothing... how long did it last? Not long... Go read any information you can find about the attacks against my home IRC network DALnet. After a month they're still not back up fully, and after the last round of attacks (ranging up to the gigabit range!) they may never recover properly. *sigh* Packet kiddies should be hunted down and then hanged, drawn and quartered.
Agreed, so annoying I just don't understand why?... I can understand hacking the RIAA but something like that is just......
