If my understanding is correct, it would be possible to disable the network by DDoSing the 101 (virtual)machines signing blocks.
101 targets is not that much, and most of our delegates are probably running on virtual machines with little resources to spare against attack.
Heck, even a simple SYN flood will probably knock most delegates offline (out of ethical concerns, I have not put this theory to the test).
Has this angle been covered? Have we as community considered the impact of a DDoS on the delegates? Finding all of their IPs to target seems trivial.
Perhaps present delegates can comment on this? Have you seen such attempts against your machines ? Or perhaps increased frequency of (e.g) SSH bruteforce attempts?
Topic: DDoSing the BitShares network (Read 4075 times)
