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All of China hitting your servers aren't considered a DDOS by itself?
by ngokevin 10y ago
All of China hitting your servers aren't considered a DDOS by itself?
- nsomaru 10y agoNot sure it's called DoS when the traffic is legitimate
- striking 10y agoYeah, there's no Denial of Service there. Just service.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoThere might be a DOS but it's not an attack. It's easier to leave off the the "attack" in "DDOS attack" so it's implied but without it the meaning changes.
- jandrese 10y agoIf they're buying stuff then it's not a DDOS. If it's millions of garbage IoT devices hitting your servers and running whatever the most expensive (CPU/Memory/IO wise) queries constantly then yes, that's a DDOS. The DDOS extortion guys are getting really good at their job. They even broke Akamai a few weeks ago. It's a spiral where they extort money and use it to improve their infrastructure to be able to extort bigger and bigger players. I have zero doubt that Alibabba's servers were already straining under the load of that many shoppers. Adding a DDOS on top of that would be catastrophic.