If Lycos was seeking to DoS the site to the point of taking it down I would agree. However, their flooding the site to 85% of it's bandwidth capacity would certainly get the Admin's attention that you mean business RIGHT NOW without completely compromising his operations.
There will be wide range of servers. I assume that nearly all of the webservers' "business" will be known to the responsible people.
There are some webservers that would be, without question nor hesitation, 100% DDoS-able:
phishing and other scamming servers (emulating citibank, paypal, visa, banks, etc)
servers that drop malicious spyware and various compromises on the visiting browsers.
btw, the DDoS would be taking out a single machine that the URL resolves to, whose HTTP server would overload and stop responding to HTTP requests very probably long before the routers, etc, would saturate. The attacking software could detect HTTP timeout and then back off/stop sending HTTP request for x minutes, the mission apparently having been accomplished (no HTTP response).
Is the reason that people here want to play nice with these criminals/gangs/thieves is that you run a web hosting service yourself and have no way to validate that your customers are strictly legit?
Len
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