DDoS attack
distributed denial of service
An attack that floods a service with traffic from many machines at once until it stops answering. When the target is a DNS provider A company that runs the name servers for a domain, which may differ from the registrar. Full definition of DNS provider, a registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry or the root server A server that answers for the DNS root zone and points to TLD servers. Full definition of root server, every domain that depends on it can become unreachable. anycast One server address served from many locations, so users reach the nearest copy. Full definition of anycast networks and spare capacity are the main defenses.
- category
- Security and abuse