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Please explain the meaning of denial of services.

Jan 22nd, 2008 22:50
dman, Prabhash Bhattnagar, http://sturly.com

Denial of service attacks are mechanisms to flood the network with 
numerous requests simultaneously, which results in the traffic either 
becoming slow or being completely interrupted. This is done through 
SMTP connections that engage in packet flooding, mail bombing, etc. The 
only good news is that these attacks do not cause permanent damage to 
databases like viruses or worms do. A denial of service attack only 
disrupts the network service for a while. 
Prabhash Bhattnagar