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Denial of Service Attacks - explain?

Zascar · 2009-07-08 13:09:52

So I just saw that one of the large Irish hosts got hit by one of these. I have heard of them plenty before but really I do not understand exactly what they are. So can someone please explain? How to they happen, and why? How do you stop them? Are they always intentional and malicious?

08-07-2009 1:09pm

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Zascar

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So I just saw that one of the large Irish hosts got hit by one of these. I have heard of them plenty before but really I do not understand exactly what they are.

So can someone please explain? How to they happen, and why? How do you stop them? Are they always intentional and malicious?

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#2 08-07-2009 1:45pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDOS

Or if your eyes are busy -> http://twit.tv/sn47

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#3 08-07-2009 1:59pm

tricky D

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Zascar wrote: »

Are they always intentional and malicious?

Not always. Once had some malconfigured but legitmate robots going beserk on one large site I ran, to the extent that the logfiles grew at a ridiculous rate over a weekend until the disk got maxed out causing the OS to crawl. Though that was from a set of subdomains as opposed to a distributed botnet.

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