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Please excuse my ignorance but what's is DDOS?
↪Distributed Denial Of Service attack..Please excuse my ignorance but what's is DDOS?
Is this done for kicks or is there a more sinister reason for it?
Kicks, blackmail, political reasons.. all sorts...Is this done for kicks or is there a more sinister reason for it?
DYN are one of the sets of servers which handle the DNS system
DNS (Domain name system) is the protocol which , for example, translates the URL "theshavingroom.co.uk" into something like 123.123.123.1 which then routes you to the website.
There are lots of DNS servers, both ISP and others. I use OpenDNS look-up on my system, Google have pretty reliable DNS servers and there are others. Most have big caches of addresses, with fallback to secondary servers if the primary doesn't find it.
For example, I can set up my DNS on my router, which would normally go to automatic look-up from my ISP, to look first at OpenDNS and then Google on 8.8.4.4 if the first fails.
This DDoS attack is flooding the DYN DNS servers and preventing normal DNS look-up translation, where sites route to DYN. It is, or was, mainly affecting East Coast USA, but could expand or move.
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