DDoS: in depth Distributed Denial of Service Attacks have
recently emerged as one of the most newsworthy, if not the
greatest, weaknesses of the Internet. Overview Distributed
Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a relatively new
development; reports of the first DDoS attacks surfaced in
mid-1999, with the highest-profile attacks coming in early 2000
against sites like Amazon.com, CNN.com, eBay and E-Trade.
Clearly, the challenge these attacks present is a serious one.
While you alone can't do much to protect yourself, as a
community we can improve the situation. The victims were
unreachable for several hours each. A brief note on usage: the
network where these attacks are taking place is called the
``Internet'', with a capital ``I''; it is the public network
shared by people all over the world. An ``internet'', with a
lower-case ``i'', is a collection of networks interconnected;
many organizations have private internets. The Internet is the
result of inter-connecting a gigantic number of private
internets. [