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I 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
by garethadams 14y ago
I 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...