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IRC Flood
Internet Relay Chat Flooding/Scrolling on an Internet Relay Chat, IRC network is a method of disconnecting users from an IRC server (a form of Denial of Service), exhausting bandwidth which causes network latency ('Latency (engineering), lag'), or just disrupting users. Floods can either be done by scripts (written for a given client) or by external programs. History The history of Internet Relay Chat flooding started as a method of Internet Relay Chat takeover, taking over an IRC channel from the original founders of the channel. The first attacks generally used a modified IRC client or an application to flood a channel or a user. Later they started to be based on IRC bot, bots and Internet Relay Chat script, scripts. This later moved on to starting IRC-based botnets which were capable of DDoS and IRC floods. Types of floods Connect flood Connecting and disconnecting from a channel as fast as possible, therefore spamming the channel with dis/connect messages also called q/j flo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Relay Chat
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging. IRC is designed for Many-to-many, group communication in discussion forums, called ''#Channels, channels'', but also allows one-on-one communication via instant messaging, private messages as well as Direct Client-to-Client, chat and data transfer, including file sharing. Internet Relay Chat is implemented as an application layer protocol to facilitate communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a Client–server model, client–server networking model. Users connect, using a clientwhich may be a Web application, web app, a Computer program, standalone desktop program, or embedded into part of a larger programto an IRC server, which may be part of a larger IRC network. Examples of ways used to connect include the programs Mibbit, KiwiIRC, mIRC and the paid service IRCCloud. IRC usage has been declining steadily since 2003, losing 60 percent of its users by 2012. In April 2011, the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
