In a LAND DDoS Attack, a victim receives spoofed SYN packets at a very high rate that have the victim’s IP range in both the Source IP and the Destination IP fields in the IP header. This attack exhausts a victim’s firewalls and/or servers by exhausting its system resources used to compute this protocol violation. Although the packet’s Source and Destination IP are identically defined within a Same Source/Dest attack, the content of the packets are often irrelevant because the attacker is simply attempting to deplete system resources.
