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Non-malicious DDOS attacks might be considered those where the traffic is genuine, like a normal website reaching the frontpage of reddit or hn.
by duiker101 14y ago
Non-malicious DDOS attacks might be considered those where the traffic is genuine, like a normal website reaching the frontpage of reddit or hn.
- manojlds 14y agoBy definition, DDOS, are malicious no? Otherwise, the site is just having high traffic that it cannot handle. If my blog goes down after being on the front page of HN, is that a DDOS?
- garethadams 14y agoI think it's more the term "attack" that indicates maliciousness. Getting Slashdotted or Hacker Newsed is definitely a distributed denial of service, but it's not so much an attack
- atc 14y agoIt's therefore NOT a DDoS if the traffic is from legitimate sources. DDoS is by definition malignant.
- criley 14y agoI don't think it's appropriate to use the DDoS acronym when not referring to an "attack". It's non-standard and will only create confusion. Every "source" online describing a DDoS uses it explicitly to refer to an attack.
- umsm 14y agoBy definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...
- trhtrsh 14y agoWas Service Denied? Was the cause Distributed?