[lug] DOS attack

[D. Stimits]

"Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   Denial Of Service.  DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service.  Apparently
> the recent MS attack was a DoS attack while the attack last year against
> Yahoo and others was a DDoS.  ( The person responsible for those just
> plead guilt to something like 64 counts of computer crimes in Canada. )
> Typically, in a DDoS, the person first breaks into a number of other
> machines and starts all of them flooding a site as well.
> 
...

When I called my ISP on the phone to find out what was wrong, the guy
told me the DOS attack was coming from over 100 different
locations...definitely distributed, DDDoS :P