Glossary term
What is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service)?
DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.
Flooding a service with traffic from many machines. Example: The 2016 Dyn attack.
Learn it properly · System DesignLesson 1: What Happens When You Type a URL and Press Enter?The one second between pressing Enter and seeing a page hides a DNS lookup, a trip through a dozen routers, two handshakes and a server doing real work. Every later lesson zooms into one part of that journey.