DosFreak 2 Posted December 3, 2000 http://www.securityportal.com/research/ddosfaq.html 1.0 What are Denial of Service (DoS) attacks? Denial of service attacks are simple and usually quite effective. An attacker attempts to overwhelm a service with requests, similar to a 5 year old constantly tugging on his mother's sweater while she is trying to have a phone conversation, you can only do so many things at a time. For example if you have a mail server capable of receiving and delivering 10 messages a second an attacker simply sends 20 messages per second, chances are the legitimate traffic (as well as a lot of the malicious traffic) will get dropped, or the mail server might stop responding entirely. Typically attackers will go for high visibility targets such as the web server, or for infrastructure targets like routers and network links." 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address that tests your network setup. [This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 03 December 2000).] Share this post Link to post
8======D 0 Posted December 4, 2000 J. Dulmage 20-2201 14th Ave Regina, SK S4P-0X9 1-306-757-9228 Feel free to courier him a box of dog**** Share this post Link to post
gramaglia 0 Posted December 4, 2000 Hi jdul, do u wanna piss everyone off now and again, again? Share this post Link to post