To: TomGuy
Can someone explain what DOS - Denial of Service means
384 posted on
08/05/2004 1:20:20 PM PDT by
Republican Red
(Is that a classified document in your pants Sandy or are you just glad to see me?)
To: Republican Red
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is where someone floods a website with so many requests, it basically sucks up all the available bandwidth. Sometimes it can be as easy as downloading a large file from the server hundreds of time @ once. Other times it is a lot more complicated and involves hacking servers, etc.
To: Republican Red
Denial of service:
Website gets hit with many requests to view it. But, the return address is fake. So the website boggs down trying to locate the 'site' that requested to view it.
414 posted on
08/05/2004 1:30:55 PM PDT by
TomGuy
(After 20 years in the Senate, all Kerry has to run on is 4 months of service in Viet Nam.)
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