  Today, internet and web services have become an inseparable part of our
lives. Hence, ensuring continuous availability of service has become imperative
to the success of any organization. But these services are often hampered by
constant threats from myriad types of attacks. One such attack is called
distributed denial of service attack that results in issues ranging from
temporary slowdown of servers to complete non-availability of service.
Honeypot, which is a sort of a trap, can be used to interact with potential
attackers to deflect, detect or prevent such attacks and ensure continuous
availability of service. This paper gives insights into the problems posed by
distributed denial of service attacks, existing solutions that use honeypots
and how a mesh of virtualized honeypots can be used to prevent distributed
denial of service attacks.
