I can't find much information on DDoS attacks, but for educational purposes how does it work? Everyone talks about it, how is it done? I am looking into ways of preventing it, and to be able to do that I need to understand it. I am not planning on DDoSing at all, it is pointless. I'm guessing people can use multiple VPS to send tons of packets to a certain network? But how is this any different than downloading a file from a server? What command is used, "ping" cannot be?
Thanks in advance, sorry for my ignorance.