Yeah, I suppose, but that usually results in a distributed attack, doesn't it? This was just from 1 IP as CH and Helpmeh pointed out.
A botnet of one; that is, a single (infected?) computer remotely controlled by somebody else...
I suppose it couldn't have been somebody practising with the ping command and unintentionally causing a flood? But I am confused. There are 3 VirginMedia fibre packages: down/up bandwidths in megabits are 10/1, 20/2 or 50/5. The last of these is quite expensive - 38 UK pounds (60 US dollars) a month. Also these upload speeds are 300% approx increases and have only just (30 Sep 2010) been announced; they are being rolled out across the network over the next few weeks. Many users are still on the old upload speeds. So (pardon my ignorance) how does one little guy in England at the end of a domestic cable connection overwhelm a server thousands of miles away? I thought that that the bandwidth of one domestic user would be so small, compared to the server where CH is hosted, that a single-IP DOS attack would be ruled out, but evidently I am missing something?
