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Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Started by Shadow03, January 03, 2009, 08:06:22 PM

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Shadow03

Over the last few days, my forum has had an average of 500 guests online at once, and the most its ever reached was 1000.

Before this week, the average number of guests we have had online at once was about 10, and the most was like 40. The cause of this problem was a DDOS, and I believe it was a result of someone exploiting my SMF 2 Beta 4. What should I do?

Antechinus

DDOS is not a 2b4 exploit. It can be done to any site regardless of the software.

Shadow03

Alright, thanks! But how would I fix this problem when its done to SMF?

Bigguy


Antechinus

I think the title of this thread could be edited to something a little less melodramatic.

Bigguy


metallica48423

a DoS attack is basically massively loading a site through massive amounts of valid requests.  You can't really stop a DDoS attack without also stopping legit traffic.  Some servers, either at the server or cluster/network level have failsafes against attacks of a scale which can take down their hardware, but DDoS is a bit different -- the requests are distributed amongst massive amounts of different IP's -- and are MUCH harder to detect.
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