Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 12:52:46
2/ @stux just posted that mstdn.social is back up after the massive DDoS attack.
Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 12:57:25
Denial-of-service attack
It's when a website gets a lot of request at the same time which the server can't respond to and you end up getting 404 messages usually or some other error. It can happen unintentionally like if a site gets a lot of request at one time organically but most often people will target a website and with simple computer commands send a lot of traffic on purpose to cause a site to crash and remain crash so legitimate users can't access
Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:08:12
2/An organic DDOS example would be, at midnight Taylor Swift tickets go on sale online. Then at midnight all the Taylor Swift fans go to the website to buy tickets. It crashes because the server can't handle all those people visiting to try to buy tickets all at once.
Malicious example would be someone mad at a website and sends a lot of fake traffic to a website so the website can't handle it so legitimate users can't access it.
Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:14:06
You are welcome coach. Have a good day too
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:15:18
@paul @CoachMark Unfort this was not a natural one 
I believe that at some point we got over 2M request per second..
Paul Chambers (@paul@oldfriends.live)
Föderation EN Fr 09.08.2024 13:19:55
Wow. That's a lot of Taylor Swift fans really wanting tickets. 😂
Go find yourself a bag and climb in and get some rest.
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