Chapter 2, Problem 17RQ

Explanation of Solution

Difference between denial-of-service attack and distributed denial-of-service attack:

Denial-of-service (DoS)	Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
In this attack one computer or one internet connection is used to flood a specific server with packets.	This attack is quite similar to denial-of-service but in this many computers and connections are utilised.
The objective of this attack is to overload the bandwidth of the server and other resources.	The computer systems or networks used for this attack are known as botnet.
This attack leads to inaccessibility of server to users and blocks the website...