What I imagine a DDOS attack looks like

Ravengenocide · 7 months

Or this?

ResidentWeeaboo · 7 months

What the Rupert Murdoch describes a DDOS attack as: http://i.imgur.com/LNsXe.jpg

LigerZer0 · 7 months

Nah, that's just the average coffee drinker browsing reddit

Not_A_Smartphone · 7 months

I'm a DDoS attack and I can confirm this.

Concussi0n · 7 months

DDOSing is the sending of blank packets to server IP, overloading demand of information, so in a way, you are correct.

Sometimes servers have a great amount of server memory/power/ram and will only overload and crash if there are many many DDoSers however a single DDoSer can crash a game server like a building gmod server.

chriszuma · 7 months

In high school my friend discovered that if you held down F5 on the school's website for about 10 seconds, it would completely crash the server and they wouldn't be able to do anything or get their emails until somebody fixed it.

As I recall, he got in a shitload of trouble (for "hacking"), which we all thought was hilarious because all he did was hold down a button.

monstereddit · 7 months

I thought they looked like this

HereticAlpha · 7 months

This made me laugh, friend.

landaaan · 7 months

Not this again....

A "SYN flood" DoS attack is when you send a forged TCP/SYN packet to the server, the when server sends an acknowledge request back (in the form of a TCP/SYN ACK packet) to open the connection, the attacker ignores (or doesn't receive) the ACK packet. The server is left with a half open connection which keeps sending ACK packages out to the attacker. Doing this continually from multiple sources (DDos) saturates the connection capacity of the target server.

mybreathyourlung · 7 months

http://i.imgur.com/2cFDL.jpg

imbrucy · 7 months

I believe this is the same setup every reddit user uses when reddit is down.

JimJam127 · 7 months

That is the most pointless jackhammer I've ever seen.

KofOaks · 7 months

That's what it looked like in 1996.

[deleted] · 7 months

WRONG! I have used equipent like that several times, and there is wery little movement on the jackhammer, it is mostly the chisel that moves. So, picture invalid. DO BETTER!!

jonathanownbey · 7 months

My whole dev team cracked up at this. :D

boxxa · 7 months

DDOS is distributed so you would need a bunch of people doing that spread out.

Im_white_and_spoiled · 7 months

This is about as exciting as it gets when it comes to DoS attacks.

anras · 7 months

If a heap of people pinged a site using a regular macro to do all the work for them would that effect a site at all?

serg2011 · 7 months

Right idea, a flood, just with possibly hundreds more keyboards.

CrazyCriple · 7 months

That looks more like what I do when reddit is down..

CaptainPain · 7 months

actually you only need to hit one button.

EyePad · 7 months

Or me when Reddit is down.

ConstipatedNinja · 7 months

HACK THE GIBSON!

coaxfun · 7 months

Technically... just a DOS attack... you need an animated gif with like, 50 keyboards, then it's DDOS.

imasif · 7 months

Relevant: http://i.imgur.com/8lojK.gif

VodkaHappens · 7 months

That's pretty accurate.

JoyousCacophony · 7 months

You have DDOS and what happens when Reddit goes down confused.

Skeetronic · 7 months

This is what we call "part of the problem."

dcmjim · 7 months

TIL what F5 does.

MrDeath2000 · 7 months

Could someone explain exactly how DDOS works please?

okwaman · 7 months

that awkward moment when you just start laughing randomly in class

id10t_error34 · 7 months

Have my upvote!

Atnevon · 7 months

Or woot waitying on a bag of crap.

Yes w00t. Where F5 jokes originated in 2006.

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