[KingJ]

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Originally Posted by [W33D hoodline ] but i doubt anyone would go though the trouble of doing this just to crash a game server i could understand someone doing it to a whole network but a game server is just stupid

It does happen though, many of the major servers have been subject to one at some point in time, and from personal experience they are not fun and impossible to fend off, short of blocking all traffic, legitimate and attack traffic to the server.



This image shows the start of a DDoS attack I was subject to, you can see the bandwidth steadily rising as the commands propagate to the zombie computers of the botnet. Eventually, it reaches 100mbit/sec at which point the connection is overloaded. The image is low quality, but you can see it rising from 'normal' bandwidth of around 3mbit/sec total to 35mibt/sec, it does go higher than this but this is the only one I captured.