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Originally posted by lil2rich4u2
I actually know several "script kiddies" capable of this shit.
They basically sit on botnets that consist of anywhere from 10k to 100k compromised hosts, that take commands and work at the drop of a dime.
Basically what this "botnet" will do is have all 100k highspeed bots send ping requests and large packets of data to the server IP.
I know for a fact there is very little that can be done about an attack of this scale.
The usual outcome is that the attacker gets bored and stops, or he has another need for his bots and pulls them off the attack.
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Partly true. Ping request are often used because they are small
packets which means a shitload of packets causing huge load to
anything that tries to filter packets. Large datagrams are useless
because they are too easy to filter out as filters only read the
headers of the packets being sent in order to determine if they
should get dropped or accepted.
Script Kiddies IRC botnets can be a hassle but they mostly use forged source addresses which makes it a little easier to take
proper action. They can still cause a lot of problems but it's not
as bad as real distinctive hosts with geniune source addresses.
Forged packets can be traced back to their original destination.
Routers and Firewalls have ways to determine if packets are
forged or spoofed which makes it easier to filter them out.
Non forged/spoofed packets cannot be filtered by labeling them
as forged which makes it a lot harder to properly filter them out.
DynaMite
