RFC 2196:Site Security Handbook
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denial of service


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... Denial of service ...


... There are several problems to which networks are vulnerable. The classic problem is a "denial of service" attack. In this case, the network ...
... routing updates are sent to one or more routers causing them to misroute packets. This differs from a denial of service attack only in the purpose behind the spurious route. In denial of service ...
... denial of service attack only in the purpose behind the spurious route. In denial of service, the object is to make the router unusable; a state ...
... to act as secondary name servers and protect their DNS masters from denial of service attacks using filtering routers. ...


... Denial of service (a system manager and all other users become locked out of a UNIX system, now in single user mode). ...



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