It's related to this topic.
I never said that it wasn't. I said that it was very bad to decipher due to the way that it was written (e.g. bad punctuation).
If you see this kind of attack hit the bitcoin network to the strength of hitting all it's seeders and major pools. You will just see the bitcoin wallet look like it's out of sync when in fact it's not.
The only way to stop it is to manually drop the ip's within iptables . This isn't about debating, discussion.
Nobody ever said that Sybil attacks weren't a possibility. It has been listed on the Wiki page for a reason. The network has to remain as decentralized as possible and the number of nodes need not become very low in order to make attacks on the network harder.
