Standardize:

DOS (Denial of Service) -> DoS

Most commonly found abbreviated as DoS over DOS throughout the Internet.

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<indexterm><primary>DOS attacks</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>DoS attacks</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm> <indexterm>
<primary>security</primary> <primary>security</primary>
<secondary>DOS attacks</secondary> <secondary>DoS attacks</secondary>
</indexterm> </indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Denial of Service</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>Denial of Service</primary></indexterm>
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<sect2> <sect2>
<title>Denial of Service Attacks</title> <title>Denial of Service Attacks</title>
<indexterm><primary>DOS attacks</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>DoS attacks</primary></indexterm>
<para>This section covers Denial of Service attacks. A DOS attack <para>This section covers Denial of Service attacks. A DoS attack
is typically a packet attack. While there is not much you can do is typically a packet attack. While there is not much you can do
about modern spoofed packet attacks that saturate your network, about modern spoofed packet attacks that saturate your network,
you can generally limit the damage by ensuring that the attacks you can generally limit the damage by ensuring that the attacks
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<para>A common DOS attack is against a forking server that attempts <para>A common DoS attack is against a forking server that attempts
to cause the server to eat processes, file descriptors, and memory to cause the server to eat processes, file descriptors, and memory
until the machine dies. Inetd (see &man.inetd.8;) has several until the machine dies. Inetd (see &man.inetd.8;) has several
options to limit this sort of attack. It should be noted that options to limit this sort of attack. It should be noted that
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<indexterm><primary>ICMP_BANDLIM</primary></indexterm> <indexterm><primary>ICMP_BANDLIM</primary></indexterm>
<para>Another common DOS attack is called a springboard attack <para>Another common DoS attack is called a springboard attack
&ndash; to attack a server in a manner that causes the server to &ndash; to attack a server in a manner that causes the server to
generate responses which then overload the server, the local generate responses which then overload the server, the local
network, or some other machine. The most common attack of this network, or some other machine. The most common attack of this