What are the sympoms of a DDOS?

[Abomination]

I've got about 50 visitors from the same IP which resolves to this:
ip70-173-52-124.lv.lv.cox.net


Is this considered a micro-ddos?


In a ddos is there thousands from the same IP?




Feel free to put this thread where ever you want too Nick : )

[MjrNuT]

Could be possible, but I don't think that hit count is substantial enough to be of any significance.

Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The IP resolves to Las Vegas. Have you contacted your host for any input on your caution?

[Nick]

Moved to Servers and Hosting.

[kevin]

Originally Posted by Abomination

I've got about 50 visitors from the same IP which resolves to this:
ip70-173-52-124.lv.lv.cox.net

Looks like you need Ddos deflate installed. Once an ip address makes more then X number of connections, its added to the host.deny file for X amount of time.

X - is a variable that you can set.

[CrazyTech]

Eh, one IP isn't much, even with 50 connections. You could term it a DOS, but it's pretty easy to stop. Use iptables or your server's firewall just to block the IP.

A DDOS attack is much larger - you pretty much know when you have a DDOS attack. Many years ago a hosting company that I worked for had one, the DC literally had to pull the plug because the attack was so massive and much of the current technology was not available yet. I'd say the difference between a DOS and DDOS is in the first "D" - which stands for distributed. a DDOS will come from multiple places (multiple IPs).

[kevin]

Originally Posted by CrazyTech

Use iptables or your server's firewall just to block the IP.

If they had ddos deflate installed, it would be automatic. That way they would not have to worry about doing it manually.

And it even works when your not at home, alseep, driving your car, watching a movie,,,,,