Massive LTC DDoS attack on all major pools

[Balthazar]

... and how will you configure your server to prevent 18 Gbit/s UDP DDoS, if you have 1 Gbit/s link? You'll power it off?

18 Gbit/s versus 1 Gbit/s is more flooding than ddosing.

Yes, it's flooding. UDP flood attack, the cheapest DDoS type.

[Balthazar]

We are under ddos too... Will be online tomorrow, after setting up antiddos proxy shield.

Most ppl dont know how to properly configure a server therefore its easy to DDoS (or even DoS) it.

... and how will you configure your server to prevent 18 Gbit/s UDP DDoS, if you have 1 Gbit/s link? You'll power it off?

1. rule: never have only 1 server
2. rule: contact ISP (takes only some minutes? but well, dunno how it is in other countrys)
3. rule: since u have now 2 (atleast) or more, setup loadbalancing or create a cluster...
not going to continue more.

Rule 4. Hoster doen't cares about you. Under massive flood they will simply blackhole your IP. So, your cluster of 1000...000 servers went offline.

[live627]

Someone's upset over the high difficulty and want to take the big pools down in order to reap moar profits. That is my guess. And when it drops back sub-thirty, they'll end attacking.

[WebMaka]

coinotron, litecoinpool, and notroll are all down.

burnside's pool is still up, though.

thats why u should use p2pool lmao

p2pool's current hashrate is "0" according to http://allchains.info/

I'm mining LTC on P2Pool and the pool itself is reporting "Pool rate: 25.8MH/s (13% stale) Share difficulty: 0.0482" while AllChains says "0.00000" for the hashrate.

P2Pool/LTC is definitely up, and both Xurious and Pool-X are down, as of when this post hit.

[c4n10]

Hmmmm, I see... My apologies...

[K1773R]

coinotron, litecoinpool, and notroll are all down.

burnside's pool is still up, though.

thats why u should use p2pool lmao

p2pool's current hashrate is "0" according to http://allchains.info/

I'm mining LTC on P2Pool and the pool itself is reporting "Pool rate: 25.8MH/s (13% stale) Share difficulty: 0.0482" while AllChains says "0.00000" for the hashrate.

P2Pool/LTC is definitely up, and both Xurious and Pool-X are down, as of when this post hit.

p2pool CANT (unless u DDoS ALL nodes) be down so u should even have to argue about it

[bitcool]

Someone's upset over the high difficulty and want to take the big pools down in order to reap moar profits. That is my guess. And when it drops back sub-thirty, they'll end attacking.

If difficulty stays at 44, it will take same amount of time for "someone" to discover a block, no matter big pools down or not....

If this works for them, what makes you think they will stop attack after it drop back sub-30?

My prediction is the attack will stop once most people come to work on Monday.

[WebMaka]

coinotron, litecoinpool, and notroll are all down.

burnside's pool is still up, though.

thats why u should use p2pool lmao

p2pool's current hashrate is "0" according to http://allchains.info/

I'm mining LTC on P2Pool and the pool itself is reporting "Pool rate: 25.8MH/s (13% stale) Share difficulty: 0.0482" while AllChains says "0.00000" for the hashrate.

P2Pool/LTC is definitely up, and both Xurious and Pool-X are down, as of when this post hit.

p2pool CANT (unless u DDoS ALL nodes) be down so u should even have to argue about it

Wasn't arguing about it, just letting everyone know that AllChains is reporting incorrectly in that case. If anyone could take P2Pool down they could just as easily fork a blockchain so it's a moot point anyway.

[K1773R]

coinotron, litecoinpool, and notroll are all down.

burnside's pool is still up, though.

thats why u should use p2pool lmao

p2pool's current hashrate is "0" according to http://allchains.info/

I'm mining LTC on P2Pool and the pool itself is reporting "Pool rate: 25.8MH/s (13% stale) Share difficulty: 0.0482" while AllChains says "0.00000" for the hashrate.

P2Pool/LTC is definitely up, and both Xurious and Pool-X are down, as of when this post hit.

p2pool CANT (unless u DDoS ALL nodes) be down so u should even have to argue about it

Wasn't arguing about it, just letting everyone know that AllChains is reporting incorrectly in that case. If anyone could take P2Pool down they could just as easily fork a blockchain so it's a moot point anyway.

wasnt talking about u, was a reference to c4n10

[CoinHoarder]

There seems to be no end in sight as of right now, the main pools are still being attacked. These guys are persistent.

[legitnick]

Someone is pissed 

[FuzzyBear]

Pissed.... or maybe testing the network for security.... If I was looking to setup say a LTC to £ or $ exchange like MtGox but for LTC then I would REALLY want to be sure that the network is secure and a 51% attack is not possible, and a brutal DDos would show the strength of the pools and what proportion of people are solo mining... or in the big pools etc....

However yes someone could be pissed they missed mining more LTC when the difficulty was lower and BTC block reward had not halved, and this if you individually have enough hashing power will enable them to get some coins quicker.... I wonder what happening to the TRC network with Coinotron down... very fragile network as it is.

[crazy_rabbit]

Pissed.... or maybe testing the network for security.... If I was looking to setup say a LTC to £ or $ exchange like MtGox but for LTC then I would REALLY want to be sure that the network is secure and a 51% attack is not possible, and a brutal DDos would show the strength of the pools and what proportion of people are solo mining... or in the big pools etc....

However yes someone could be pissed they missed mining more LTC when the difficulty was lower and BTC block reward had not halved, and this if you individually have enough hashing power will enable them to get some coins quicker.... I wonder what happening to the TRC network with Coinotron down... very fragile network as it is.

Actually TRC is only down a little bit. The difficulty hovers around 800, so about half what it was with coinotron. Also BitcoinReactor is still up. So there is another pool for the not-so-solomining-inclined.

[cabin]

Yeah, the network is still at 921 MH/s.

There's too much solo miners in LTC, pools are in minority.

I'd be willing to bet the person with a large chunk of that 921Mh is the one doing the Ddos'ing, otherwise what's the point?

I'd guess it's a bot net owner or a group of hackers that run a bot net would make more since. They kill all the big pools, and all the sudden they solve many more blocks.

For a 51% attack they would be mining in secret before and during the attack so you would never know about them and the difficulty would stay low. But that might not be the goal here.

[michaelmclees]

The only plausible goal I would say is to disrupt the network to such a degree that people want to cash out, so the attackers can gobble up some cheap coins.

[creativex]

Well that's certainly working.

[coinotron]

DDoS attack seems to stop. At least at Coinotron. I wonder for how long?
Anyway Coinotron is up and running.

[rchapoteau]

Would be funny if they find its not actually a ddos and just a large amount of people jumping the bitcoin ship after the halving. 

Dreamers can dream.

[wndrbr3d]

The issue here is we need to promote a culture of many smaller pools, especially for alt chains. The more targets the less DDoS attacks will impact the mining community.

For this though, we need more easily available software (I posted about this in the alt forum) for people to run their own pools. If we can do this, we essentially make our network more resilient to attack. 

[CoinHoarder]

My rigs now have a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool that has a back up pool. I need to setup solo mine as the last resort!

This means war!