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Aarti Singh et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(8), 2010, 3405-3411 Agent Based Preventive Measure for UDP Flood Attack in DDoS Attacks AARTI SINGH1*, DIMPLE JUNEJA2 1, 2 M.M. Institute of Computer Technology Business Management M.M.University, Mullana ,Haryana, India Abstract Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is an attack which makes victim resources and services unavailable to its intended users. In particular, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) flood attack in DDoS attacks is a method causing host based denial of service. It occurs when attacker sends UDP packets to a random port on the victim system, causing responses to be sent to forged IP address. The basic thrust of this paper is agent based solution for UDP flood attack because software agent technology seems to be a strong candidate for defending DDoS attacks and very few researchers have thought of deploying agents towards providing solution for UDP attack earlier. Keywords - Denial-of-Services, Distributed Denial-of-services, Agent Technology, Computer Network Security, User Datagram Protocol. 1. Introduction A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is an attack which makes resources unavailable to its legitimate users. It means the attacker wants to disable the uses of sites or services on Internet for its intended users temporarily or indefinitely. This attack occurs when multiple systems (which are compromised by attackers) flood the bandwidth or resources of a target system with data packets [4,11 , 13]. Distributed Denial-of-Service attack brought attention in February 2000 when some well known web sites like , CNN.com e