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Originally Posted by THE_KNOWN
hm... by what do you mean by spamming? today i just check my console and i had a BAD Rcon login form ip spam
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DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It's the same as Denial of Service (DoS), except you have multiple computers comitting the attack, generally these computers are part of a botnet, which is a network of infected computers that are being given commands remotely. Denial of Service is exactly what it says, it's the denial of your service, so you're paying to rent a gameserver, and someone is comitting a Denial of Service attack on your server, hence denying your service. Usually, these attacks are comitted in the distributed form, where they have many computers flooding the service at once, the combined bandwidth is too much for the server connection to handle. There are also cases where exploited websites are used to attack, which means far more bandwidth in general.
"Bad RCON Login" is not a Denial of Service attack, since they are not denying your service. It may be a dictionary or bruteforce attack though, which is another different type of attack. You can read more about this yourself on the Wikipedia. The best way to protect yourself against these kind of attacks is to either disable RCON using "RCON 0" in the server.cfg, or else by making your RCON password long and unique.
