In computing, a denial-of-service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users. A DoS or DDoS attack generally consists of efforts to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.
SlowHTTPTest is a highly configurable tool that simulates some Application Layer Denial of Service attacks. It works on majority of Linux platforms, OSX and Cygwin – a Unix-like environment and …