One angry resident saturates the city's parks-reservation form from a single home IP until the page stops responding. Web logs show no botnet, no distinct source swarm, and no account theft. Which term correctly describes this event?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Picture one garden hose cranked wide open until the flower bed floods — that is DoS, one source, one method, service dead. DDoS is a hydrant farm: many distinct IPs at once. A single home address hammering parks reservations is the hose, not the farm.
Full Explanation
Denial-of-service is availability damage from a single source or a single method that exhausts a civic service. Distributed denial-of-service requires many distinct, coordinated sources. A botnet implies a controlled collection of compromised hosts, and an APT is a capable, persistent adversary — neither is supported by one residential IP flooding a form. Analysts should label the parks outage as DoS so response, ISP coordination, and notable dispositions stay aligned with the evidence.