DdoS explanation PLEASE

[EpicFooF]

Hello, I need a full explaination for Ddos.
I have a school work and I need it very quickly and if you can, please give some examples.

 

[EpicFooF]

Thank you

DDoS stands for Disturbed Denial of Service. When you 'ddos' someone, you are sending their router packets, hence your internet will become slower and slower every second. Once the router receives too many packets it overflows and stops.

 

[EpicFooF]

No, that's not correct. Let me explain it.

DDOS, stands of distributed denial of service. It involves several computers and connections. These computers are typically infected with a malware that allows them to be part of the attack. These computers can send packets to a host, to flood it. A host without ddos protection can't filter out the bad traffic from the good traffic, hence it crashes and slows down.

Ty

 

[Panther Hosting]

If you ever need ddos protection for a website use cloudflare they run every packet/connection through them to prevent attacks.

 

[jeeperscreeper77]

Imagine if I got all of my friends to come to my local McDonalds at 5:30 (during peak time) and said, ok, all of you, go ask for some random menu item, then after you get it, go to the back of the line and start again until they run out of resources. Now, imagine if my friends were bots, and that McDonald's was your website... After a while, you wouldn't be able to keep up with all of my bots so you would run out of food (crash).

I hoped my food analogy helps you understand this a little better.

 

[Dectom]

A DDoS attack is a Direct Denial Of Service Attack. This happens when someone deliberatly sends huge ammounts of packets to your server and your server is not able to handle it.

The best way to explain this is this. Imagine that your a parent. You have an infinate bag of cookies. Your handing out the cookies 1 by 1 to the children that come up to you and you can handle this. But when the attack starts you have thousands of children asking for a cookie at the same time but your not able to hand out cookies that fast. So you shut down.

In this example. 1 Child is 1 packet


EDIT:

Services like Cloudflare and other ddos protection work to find the malicious packets and get rid of them