liik ummistusründeid, the activity of using a specially designed computer program to attack a computer network by flooding it with messages, thereby rendering it inoperable, a denial-of-service attack in which a network is disabled by an overwhelming number of replies to ping requests that have been given the return address of the network to be attacked, a type of denial-of-service attack that relies on flooding a network with a large volume of traffic through the manipulation of IP addresses in that network