To be prevented with Flood (English tide) (usually useless) a message or a command is normal Chatten meant, which/that very fast one repeats, in order with it in extreme cases either a Chat then fully to be written in the Internet and thus or to put with commands, in such a way attacked computer lamely.

Flood within the Security range

The Flood technology becomes also with DDoS similar techniques related, where one sends a Crash as the same command to a computer over thereby to cause. Whole IRC networks can be disturbed by DDoS attacks, thus "“Floodings"” substantial. There were such actions already quite often in German as well as in world-wide IRC networks.

Flood in the Chat

Typical Flood messages in the Chat are for example: wants possibly who or also me boringly"…, this is under Zuhilfename of an intermediate file as fast as possible again is then inserted. Another kind, to flooden, is inserting enormous text masses into a Chat; this disturbs the read river, one should here rather to nopaste systems seize. The Flooder avails itself also programs like that of so-called Chatflooder, which are able to mail entered texts in short time succession. So large data sets can be brought within a short time into a Chat and so this disturbing.

Sense of these Floods is it sometimes, the other Chatteilnehmer to nerves to provoke and/or induce to the withdrawal from the Channel. With violent Floods it is without an appropriate protection no longer possible to chatten, there the own message, go down as well as of the Chatpartnern simply. Other reasons against Flood are that the servers on those over IRC this Floods had had to process, to it needed computing time, since this (particularly with larger Chatservern) is fully used for the normal Chatbetrieb, restrains a Flood the servers when processing the Chats, therefore this "“Flooder"” is usually gebannt from the network, so that they do not produce costs by Traffic or controversy with "“anti- Floodern"”.

Flooder are not for a long time waited in many Chats and IRC nets and also called the "“network operators"” as well as "“Channel operators"” to decide usually fast for a Kick or Bann.Die most IRC Daemons (e.g. UnrealIRCD) to have usually an inserted Floodfilter "“anti- Flooder"” and "“anti- Spamer"”, which release an immediate G-LINE, which avoids the Flooder of the whole IRC network.

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