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> It's not a self ddos

Maybe not

> if twitter isn't going down

I disagree. Ddos is a type of attack, not the result of an attack. If they're hitting their services way too many times in a distributed fashion, it's a ddos regardless of how it was handled.

Similarly, would you say this[0] wasn't a ddos because it was mitigated? I think not.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/26m-rps-ddos/

>>hn9272+(OP)
Self ddos is more fuzzy because there is no intent. If I wget all pages from a site's site map is that a dos? If it was architecture to handle that kind If load the site would be unaffected and if wasn't it could potentially cause availability problems. If after starting my download script I noticed the server couldn't handle my requests then I would recognize I am dosing them.

>>charci+q7
> more fuzzy because there is no intent

I agree. DoS is an attack, so without intent it is fuzzy. But I think it is pretty descriptive, so it's okay. I know exactly what self-ddos means instantly (flooding your own service, without malicious intent).

I think it's kind of a limitation with English or the term ddos. If it really is only used it for intent to attack, it becomes less useful of a word IMO.