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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greggy C" data-source="post: 8538137" data-attributes="member: 7023901"><p>I mean it happens all the time, people write a simple program to bring down, lets say the DNS servers which transform <a href="http://www.somesite.com" target="_blank">www.somesite.com</a> into their internet address 204.10.130.4  The program requests something from the server but makes it so that server can never respond, so it uses up resources (system processes) to do nothing.  Program repeats it thousands of times until the DNS server is spinning all of its wheels on nothing and can't take any more requests from anyone.  More programs bring down the rest of the DNS servers.  More programs bring all the DNS servers.  Now everyone in the world is typing enworld.org but nothing is happening.</p></blockquote><p></p>