>>Not exactly vfp, but can someone explain exactly how these "hackers" are bringing the major sites down? The news reports are confusing - one report looks like slamming, another more like SQL overloads, another "death-by-pinging", another hacking into a network... Or is this still something of a secret?
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>Hi Bruce, here are some articles via www.slashdot.org
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>http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/08/1338245.shtml
>http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/08/0344217.shtml
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>The attach method is referred to as "denial of service". Really just overwheling the server with typical data request until it can no longer to respond to any of them.

Thanks Evan, the second one was funny, anyway :) But I've read all this stuff in the news - these guys seem to just be debating it about the same level as some of us at work here are.

What is a typical "data-request"? Are the heavy ones SQL-type hits? I can see those tying up servers in a hurry, we've done that in testing on our own servers, in fact...and most if not all of these sites are DB-oriented. But I'm not sure that's what this means...