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Originally Posted by moeloubani
I just don't get how some kid with a server that isn't really pumping much bandwidth at all is taking down a website like that. Is it really that easy that it just takes 1 person and most of the websites out there would go down?
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You have to realize that many people have connections which are capable of 50 Mbps alone. Get 1000 of these in a bot net and it can be tough for anything to stay up. There are things you could do but they have to be done at the host or in some cases the backbone. Most aren't going to want to bother. For small unsophisticated attacks which are only meant to overload one server you sometimes can change things around at the server (IPtables and kernel buffer) but often the attacks are way more than this method can handle.