Definitions for "SYN Flood"
a common type of denial of service (DoS) attack
a DoS attack in which server resources, not bandwidth, are stressed
a series of SYN packets (connection requests) from forged IP addresses
Keywords:  exploited, launch, trying, route, get
a computer trying to get a response from your computer so it can establish another route to launch from or to see what services can already be exploited
Keywords:  queue, flooded, connection, new, opened
When the SYN queue is flooded, no new connection can be opened.