Forum :: Lounge :: Why do people "DDOS"?

A question i always wanted to know is what does "ddosing" mean and why do others do this to other peoples servers?

It's a denial-of-service attack. http://www.iplocation.net/tools/denial-of-service.php

That has a lot of info of what it actually is. People usually do it to EO servers, particularly popular servers. Why? I don't know, maybe because they want to have more players on their server. Or jealous they have more players than others. Or they do it for the laughs.

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You could possibly Google it. But this is what DoS is,  Denial-of-service. A DDoS is, Distributed Denial-of-service. An attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out, motives for, and targets of a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of the efforts of one or more people to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services hosted on high-profile web servers. There are different sorts of methods to this. ICMP flood, SYN flood, Teardrop attacks, Low-rate Denial-of-Service attacks, Peer-to-peer attacks,Asymmetry of resource utilization in starvation attacks, Application-level floods, Nuke, R-U-Dead-Yet?, Distributed attack, Reflected / Spoofed attack, Denial-of-Service Level II. I won't explain them. That is what Wiki is for.

As someone once told me people do if for revenge, for laughs, because they are bored, and so on. 

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People like to ddos because they are either evil, bored or just jealous about something. e.g because your server has more players than his.