What does DDosing mean?

I its when a person with YOUR ip address sends packets of data to your computer making it very slow. If I remember right thats what it is.

 

Its when you hack into their internet and shut it down for LOOOOOONG time or even perm

 

From what people have said to me, I think it is when you hack into somebody's internet and do stuff with it... (correct me if I'm wrong.)

 

Distributed denial of service. Basically overloads their server/your router with message spam, causing it to not be able to respond to real messages.

 

What GreySwordz said, but you could've just googled this.

 

Speaking of DDos, don't click any bit.ly links you see in the minecraft chat. They can easily be ip loggers. In addition, don't give your skype to people you don't trust, as they can resolve your ip from it and then you're in equally deep.

 

Just going to add on to Grey's message, it sends millions, or even trillions, of malicious spam packets to your router causing it to overload and shut off.
This in turn takes you off the internet.
You can protect yourself by using a VPN.

 

DDoSing is also an illegal offense, so if you catch an indivudual DDoSing another person, or if you see someone threatening to DDoS someone, report it and a ban will be delivered.

 

DoS = Denial of Service
In a DoS attack, one computer and one internet connection is used to flood a server with packets, with the aim of overloading the targeted server’s bandwidth and resources.

DDoS: Distributed Denial of Service

A DDoS attack, uses many devices and multiple Internet connections, often distributed globally into what is referred to as a botnet. A DDoS attack is, therefore, much harder to deflect, simply because there is no single attacker to defend from, as the targeted resource will be flooded with requests from many hundreds and thousands of multiple sources.

If you want to protect your network/server from a DoS/DDoS attack, get a VPN.

 

A lot of rumors go around that people get ddosed when their internet just goes out. So please if your interent goes out don't assume it's a DDoS right away

 

Direct denial of service attack.

 

A DDoS attack is a Distributed Denial of Service attack, which works by sending information to an IP address.
Basically, let's say your house is your Modem or Router, that is your access point to the internet.
Every house has an address, that is your IP that you use to connect to the internet and/or servers such as minecraft, skype, etc.
Everytime you send a letter, you put a return address and where it's gonna be sent to, a letter is a packet as you send google.com "Hey, can you send me all the results for minecraft?" it replies with a packet, which takes a second or two to process, depending on your speed, "Here's all the results from the internet!" same goes for minecraft, skype, etc.
When someone is DDoSing you, they take these same packets, and instead of sending one at a time to a site, they send it to you, basically if you got a bunch of letters all the sudden, eventually you'd get blocked from the outside world by a mountain of letters, a DDoS attack uses the packets to block off your internet.

There really is no solution that i've found to stop the attacks, I've been DoS'd a million times and DDoS'd maybe like... 1-5 times. A vpn basically just hides your IP, it works but some lag your internet quite a bit, Dynamic IPs or a DDoS defense system is the best way to avoid or stop them.

 

Your internet wont go down completely its rare that it does. It just slows your computer down very much. If you playing minecraft and you DDOSed then your fps(frames per second) will drop dramatically.

 

Here you go, very helpful video explaining DDoSing. Do not even try to DDoS, all you will get is trouble, maybe even legal issues. If you need me to explain it in a nutshell, I will. Feel free to ask.

 

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Oh god I got ninja'd? Anyways sorry I was wrong Iv'e always known it as direct denial of service.

 

Who told you DDoS stood for Direct Denial of Service?