How does a yahoo booter work? Read on.

The Great Lover · Subject: How does a yahoo booter work? Read on. Tue Aug 19 2008, 15:42

I've written an article before on how booters work but still i see time
and time again confusion, even most of the programmers who write
booters don't even understand why their booters work so i'm going to
try and explain it.

Best way to imagine a booter is just a pipe with a pump on the end which pumps the water down the pipe to yahoo.

the client has a pipe which gets the water from yahoo (which was sent by the booter / other people) .

How to boot someone? Send more water to the person than the person can
get out, once the water gets full it over spills and the person is
booted, now at yahoo's end when you send an instant message to a user
yahoo takes that packet then delivers it to the client now if that
client is busy, instead of throwing away that packet yahoo stores it in
a buffer (buffer is like a swimming pool, you can fill it but not too
much or it will overflow) now as you keep sending on packets unless the
client is awake and able to get them the data will get stored in the
buffer and it will keep getting stored in the buffer until the buffer
is reached when this happens yahoo assumes the ID is no longer active
so yahoo disconnect the ID.

If the client happens to be using a good connection nice and fast and
is able to take from the buffer faster than the person can upload it to
fill the buffer the client will not be booted, it takes roughly 130k of
data to fill that buffer so if a person can only upload at 10k/s but
the person being attack can download at 20k/s that person will not be
booted.

now, sbooter on the other hand fills that buffer and then with a single
command sends it all instantly so even if the other person has the
fastest connection on the planet that buffer will be filled instantly
causing them to be booted / disconnected.