What are DoS Attacks?

[gutharius]

Are they attack on specific IP ports? Is there a way to simply block them? does anyone have a simple and basic FAQ i can read on this?

 

[Sideswipe001]

Here's some info

 

[cmetz]

gutharius, generally, anything that causes such a load to prevent normal service. For example, if someone floods your Internet connection, no legit traffic can get through. Drilling down, if you have a web server, flooding it with more requests than it can handle. Or if your router has a bug that can make it lock up, sending whatever packets are needed to make it happen.

DoS is a general term, so the answer is general.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: cmetz
gutharius, generally, anything that causes such a load to prevent normal service. For example, if someone floods your Internet connection, no legit traffic can get through. Drilling down, if you have a web server, flooding it with more requests than it can handle. Or if your router has a bug that can make it lock up, sending whatever packets are needed to make it happen.

DoS is a general term, so the answer is general.

Absolutely true. But I believe the general connotation is a flood of traffic to disrupt service - either overloading a network pipe or a server service/port.

 

[n0cmonkey]

It's a general term for Denying someone Service.

Flooding the line, eating resources on the target server, or bringing down the server all count.