DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.
Denial of Service occurs when you flood a system with so many requests that it’s interfaces to the Internet can’t handle the traffic.
This, in effect, makes it unavailable.
DDos is when a group of systems coordinate their attacks upon a particular targeted system.
It’s not a method that requires a great deal of skill.
should have been “its interfaces”
So why do websites not structure their entry pages differently? For instance if one is not a member or has not already logged in as a member they go to one page and the members another. If hits one this one page of non members gets to be problem put it on another server.
When Free Republic was going down over and over again some of the freepers were posting on Yahoo FR that we were under DOS attacks.
As I understand it, you suggest that ‘thousands’ go to a certain site at certain times and it overwhelms the server??
I am not a guru, lol.
There are several fairly effective countermeasures vs a standard DDoS attack (yes, I’ve worked on some, no, I’m not going to discuss them). And I mean beyond just IP blocking (which does work OK against VERY basic DDoS attacks, but can also block legit users, esp. if their computers have been zombied unbeknownst to them).
That said, a sophisticated DDoS attack can be a real pain in the @zz to handle. My bet is this will be the former, not the later.