DoS attack

A DoS is short for Denial of Service attack, basically think of it this way:

Your computer engages in a conversation with other computers. The conversation generally goes like this:
"Why hello my fellow computer, how are you doing?"
"Fine, how are you my server?"
"Good, what would you like to find?"
"I would like to load this webpage."
"That's fine, here, you may download it"
"Thank you, I have received the webpage without error."
"Anything else you would like?
"No, that's fine" *Terminate*

What a DoS does:

"HEY, GIVE ME THE FUCKING WEBPAGE"
"alright"
"GIVE ME THE FUCKING WEBPAGE"
"alright"
"GIVE ME THE FUCKING WEBPAGE"
"alright...

Do it multiple times and the computer just...dies.

Welcome to 2002.

With the many internet-banging and indentity-ofuscating bandwidth-raping extensions Firefox has available, it is a very good tool for legal purposes such as testing your personal network's ability to resist DDoS attacks.

www.getfirefox.com

Also DoS is not the same thing as DDoS

also MSDOS is not the same as QDOS. wait...OH SHI-

Distributed Reflection Denial of Service for the win

>>1
Even that makes no sense. How do you figure that a single request during a DoS attack is different from a single request normally?

>>7

We can only assume that he's referring, with (stupid) layman terminology, to a SYN-flood.  You are correct, his analogy is broken and nonsensical, but it's because he has the server initiating the connection.

So, a while ago i went on some websites chatroom, using a javaclient, irc thing next thing i know, since i went in to flame i was recieving massive amounts of packets to my comments.. you know..

so... was someone trying to packet flood me or ddos me or something, this was ages ago on some fansite of some game

i had like a 20mb connection... so they didnt do much harm, they were just annoying i was more going har har har fuckerz.

>>5
ROFL

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