Comments on Denial of Service
Examples of accidental denial of service include:
- Mistakes in included JavaScript which cause infinite loops which can only be addressed by rebooting computer
- One of my friends had a bug in his email script which set 50 copies of his message
- Use of too many graphics in your web pages uses all available network resources!
- In November of 1996, an HTML page containing 100 tables within a table caused client computers to crash!
Clearly such inconveniences are inevitable and can consequences can only be addressed by careful programming and robust operating systems which will reduce impact.
- make certain all your key open files are “saved” before accessing unknown pages so that crashs do not destroy information!