[Xitami] Denial of Service Attacks?

[bernd hohmann]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:23:53 -0400, AOK Lansing wrote:

> Please excuse my ignorance. Can someone please explain exactly what a Denial
> of Service attack is and how I can determine if someone has is trying to
> send one to my Xitami server?

a DoS is usually a type of attack on a network to bring the
network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic.

a DDoS (distributed denial of service attack) is something
different: in the first step, a software tries to break into
your computer to install a software which tries to replicate to
other victim computers. if there are enough infected computers,
all machines starts a DoS to a specific server.

Nimda and CodeRed are such DDoS worms who used a security leak
in the IIS for breaking in and distributing itself.

Xitami (as far as understand) there are no such leaks.

bernd