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title: Denial of Service | ||
title: Denial of Service (DoS) | ||
slug: Glossary/Denial_of_Service | ||
page-type: glossary-definition | ||
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**DoS** (Denial of Service) is a category of network attack that consumes available server resources, typically by flooding the server with requests. The server is then sluggish or unavailable for legitimate users. | ||
**Denial of Service** (DoS) is a category of network attack that consumes available {{Glossary("server")}} resources, typically by flooding the server with requests. The server is then sluggish or unavailable for legitimate users. | ||
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See {{glossary("DOS attack")}} for more information. | ||
Computers have limited resources, for example computation power or memory. When these are exhausted, the program can freeze or crash, making it unavailable. A DoS attack consists of various techniques to exhaust these resources and make a server or a network unavailable to legitimate users, or at least make the server perform sluggishly. | ||
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There are also {{Glossary("Distributed Denial of Service", "Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)")}} attacks in which a multitude of servers are used to exhaust the computing capacity of an attacked computer. | ||
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### Types of DoS attack | ||
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DoS attacks are more of a category than a particular kind of attack. Here is a non-exhaustive list of DoS attack types: | ||
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- bandwidth attack | ||
- service request flood | ||
- SYN flooding attack | ||
- ICMP flood attack | ||
- peer-to-peer attack | ||
- permanent DoS attack | ||
- application level flood attack | ||
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## See also | ||
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- [Denial-of-service attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack) on Wikipedia | ||
- [Denial of Service](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Denial_of_Service) on OWASP |
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