Quote Originally Posted by admin
DoS

Attacking host send request to the server with spoofed ip address. So the server reply to that fake IP, and wait for response form that fake IP, that server will never get. Every server have a que size (number of active request a server can handle at a time). For most of the servers, it will be 200 requests at a time. If it exceeds, server don't process the request.

DDoS

DoS from multiple location.
yeah, nasty little thing to do to a server... there are also different types od DoS's, and if your interested in knowing, I'll post them.