This paper re-examines the denial-of-service issue. It looks at the techniques used to accomplish denial of service including process recovery, resource destruction (crash), and resource overload. Looking at how DOS functions allows for the design of other DOS attacks aimed at the processes used by the operating system, the network protocols and the users.
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