Clive notices that one of his hosts keeps getting DoS'd. A quick view of the traffic on the wire shows a lot of traffic that has both the destinate and host address the same as the victim. What type of attack is this?
A) Land
B) Fraggle
C) Smurf
D) Ping of Death

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A land attack is when the attacker sends traffic toward a host spoofing its own address as the source. Its ACK counter does not increment the way it should (because it didn't send the traffic in the first place), causing it to "re-ack" for the same sequence number over and over.

Clive Notices That One of His Hosts Keeps Getting DoS'd