DoS guidelines

Let your teacher know when you've reached this point. When most or all students are ready the teacher will set up the experiment and let you know the URL to access.

In your browser, visit the URL you have received from your teacher and note how quickly the page loads. You can do this several times (just refresh the page) and note the times and if there is any variation.

Your teacher will follow the instructions in the teacher manual to start the attack. Let it run for a few minutes.

In your browser, visit the URL you have received from your teacher and note how quickly the page loads now. To be certain you are not visiting cached content try visiting the URL from an incognito window in your browser. You can do this several times (just refresh the page) and note the times and if there is any variation.

Your teacher will share the output of the attack tool, which also shows the number of open sockets on the server. What can you observe about this number? What can you observe about how easy or hard it was to conduct this attack?