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[Maybe] DoS attack with HTTP on multiplayer?

Started by Zudo, 18 July 2013 - 09:43 AM

Zudo #1

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Posted 18 July 2013 - 11:43 AM

I thought this should go in general.

I was reading about DoS attacks and I just thought that, on multiplayer, users of ComputerCraft could perform a DoS attack on a remote computer using the server's IP. I may be wrong though

lieudusty #2

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Posted 18 July 2013 - 11:58 AM

HTTP is quite slow. I've had a player tried to do that before lol

Zudo #3

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Posted 18 July 2013 - 12:09 PM

lieudusty, on 18 July 2013 - 11:58 AM said:
HTTP is quite slow. I've had a player tried to do that before lol

1lann #4

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Posted 18 July 2013 - 01:05 PM

Well it's not too slow, apparently you can actually make a server appear offline if you spam http.request on the 127.0.0.1 or disable pastebin. But you can prevent this from happening by adding a a delay on http.requests or a queue, which would be better.

Sxw #5

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Posted 18 July 2013 - 05:17 PM

Wasn't there a cc virus that used to do that?