DoS Attack on a Device/IP (Not Website)

[Coto]

Hello, so a few weeks ago, I installed xerxes and slowloris on Kali Linux, and they worked just fine, I tested them on a couple of Websites, and it was strong enough to get them down!

Now, what I was wondering, is how could I take down a Person/Device by just having their IP Address. I'd assume that you do the same, replacing the Website with the IP Address, but what about the port? Does it remain 80, or does it change? Also, I've checked xerxes script and by default it has:

Connections - 8
Threads - 50

I made a few copies, where I changed the number of threads. I made several copies, for example, 50, 100, 1.000, 5.000 ... 100,000 Threads. Of course the higher number of threads, the more the Computer will be lagging and/or eventually crashing.

But I was wondering what the "Connections" mean. Does it work like a Botnet or something? Where for example if the Connections are 8, and the threads are 8,000, would each Connection/Bot send 1,000 Threads, or would all the Connections send 8,000 together? And would the Attacking-Device lag if you changed the number of Connections?

I tried googling some things, but didn't get a complete answer.

Hopefully, someone knows the answer to my questions...

Thank you!

[0pt1musPr1m3]

No, no, no

DoS is skid shit..

A webserver that can be DoSed has a limited number of connections available for all users connecting to it - so the more you use the stronger your attack... You are using up the websites resources, DoS 101

port 80 is what most webservers run on, you can DoS port 80 on a personal device all day and it wont do anything..

there are many ways it can be done though.
fo example you could use ettercap and its dns_spoof plugin to MITM the victim and redirect them to a page of your choice.  Pretty sure ettercap also has a plugin that will drop all packets, effectively DoSing the victim.

[Coto]

I recently found the way to perform DoS Attacks - successfully, so I don't want to move to ethercap and other complex things yet. For now I want to practice with Slowloris and Xerxes. Even with 8 Connections and 50 Threads, I tried this DoS Vulnerable-looking Website: www.ab-futsal.be and it went down immediately. And I assumed that if it can take down Websites, it can take down IP Addresses. So the command would be ./xerxes [Victim's IP] 80

But after trying that, it didn't seem to work out. So, I'm trying to learn how to DoS an IP for now, without having to deal with other odd ways of taking an IP down.

[0pt1musPr1m3]

Good luck then skiddo...

You are probably doing nothing but DoSing your own network.. How do you know it went down?


/BoS this crap

[Coto]

I'm not Reflecting the Attack on my Network. This issue used to occur on me back when I was trying it with LOIC. To test it out, I checked http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ 's result on the Website I DDoS'd. So, it's not DrDoSing.