wth??

[DarkDelight.net]

Why do they have two different names for the same thing?

You could ask the same thing about vB and vBB

[N9ne]

Because there are many types of DoS attacks...

I see, so what exacty is an ICMP flood?

[MUG]

I see, so what exacty is an ICMP flood?

Sending more ICMP packets than the server can handle.

[N9ne]

Sending more ICMP packets than the server can handle.

My server and many others' seemed to have handled them fine?

[MUG]

My server and many others' seemed to have handled them fine?

So the attack didn't work

[N9ne]

So the attack didn't work

I suppose that's a good thing, and now my online record is 2363

[bahawolf]

Well, the attack on I was successful. lol They didn't take the server down... but I disabled the forum to decrease the server load. I didn't think it'd have much effect considering I'm on a Dual Xeon and a 10k RPM drive SCSI but... obviously it did.

Most users ever online was 2628, Today at 08:42 AM.

[Faruk]

We have a site project here of our own (we're a webhost) that is so popular that its normal visitors usage was about equal to a medium DoS attack.

We've added more servers to it recently to make it faster with the same amount of request / second. Funny though ^_^

[merk]

Can someone explain to me how the hell an ICMP flood would affect a server running on PORT 80?

ICMP != TCP.

If it was an ICMP flood, your apache services would not be affected (therefore, no extra "guests").

[bahawolf]

Who knows... I thought it was an ICMP Flood. Oh well.

[merk]

Who knows... I thought it was an ICMP Flood. Oh well.

It very well could have been, but an ICMP flood did not cause the guests.

ICMP packets dont have a port, they are like "PING", there are also packets in ICMP involved in the creation of tracert things and the like, though i cant remember the name of those packets.

[bahawolf]

Ah... maybe it involved 2 different attack methods.

[pablo]

Fix what? Ah, the amount of posts? Guest can not post... so thats just my members and such. (Who knows...) The forums are currently disabled as requested by my host.

i was referring more to he grammer of the line. "There have been made"

[Erwin]

There is a difference in a dDoS attack and the one described here.

You wouldn't be so happy with a real dDoS attack though. No vBulletin software could hanlde that; obviously.

It IS a DDOS attack, just using a different method. There are many different types. This one appears to be trying to flood the server via the end-user software, in this case the vB forums.

[bahawolf]

i was referring more to he grammer of the line. "There have been made"

Ah ok, thanks. I'll fix that in a few mins...