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Originally posted by 4play@24 March 2004 - 10:17
the main problem with the net is all these damn windows users connecting to it. The volume of traffic generated by malicious worms attacking other machines is starting to get too much. I have never heard of any one complaining about there neighbours site getting ddos'd and its slowed down there connection. I have heard many people complain about masses of network traffic being generated by worms.
That is why isp's are now removing people from the internet who are infected with these viruses and worms. Recently we have started to see again rather more malicious viruses who's payload destroys your machine rather then just mails it out to more people. This might be the wake up to people that these viruses are to be avoided and protect yourself against them.
ip adresses will run out but not for a while yet and ipv6 might replace it even though it does mean extra overhead. if i remember reading the specs for v6 properly it will include data in the packets about the jumps the packet has taken. this will be a big help to stop dos attacks.
the backbone of the internet will not be allowed to be overburdened now that the internet is big business. voip is about to take off and you can bet that phone companies want to be the people to provide you with it.
Scaremoungering is rife on the internet the imminent death of c, macs, freebsd and tcp /ip has been predicted for years and they are skill alive and kicking.
Partly true, but I have seen many ppl complaining of increased traffic caused by DDos attacks, since the attack involves many thousands of victimized computers to run the attack against 1 or more target(s). The case is very similar to worms, since many email worms send emails from the victims' machines, so thousands of emails are send simulateously, which also result in the same effect.