[OT] DALnet Explains DDOS

[Jonathan M. Hollin]

OFF TOPIC

Some of you probably know that DAlnet has been subject to a large-scale DDOS attack recently. As a result of this, they (DALnet) have posted a series of articles in their ezine to explain to their users what's happening.

They have a wonderful "Plain English" explanation of DOS and DDOS that I thought some of you might like to read. Use this when you need to explain DOS / DDOS to pointy-haired-bosses and "civilians"! :-)

http://zine.dal.net/what-dos.php

Sorry for the off-topic post.

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Jonathan M. Hollin

Technical Director: Digital-Word Co. (http://digital-word.com/)
Co-ordinator: WYPUG (http://wypug.pm.org/)