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Originally Posted by sherlock wtf is a distributed denial service attack anyway?

The kids choice of server attack methods. Basically the attacker sends a huge amount of requests to the server. The server cant handle them as fast as new requests arrive, so he is blocked.
Almost every 5 years old child is able to find ddos tools somewhere, so they think they can blackmail whoever they want.
Fact is, most of them do not even test these tools and lots of them are just not working. Also ddos attacks can be prevented very easily if you limit the number of max requests per second and just block new requests from a ip after that.