Greetings,
TLDR: There was a DDoS along with some data center network issues last night. All is well now. No Eligius servers were compromised.
well, that's not all, right?
we lost a block due to...things, which may or may not be directly related to ddos.
did not exactly get the point why the block was not submitted on a timely basis ("because of extreme latency at the datacenter").
i don't think that the datacenter was ddosed, right? maybe you need to be at a better datacenter?
My personal loss ~$25
oh, well
So,
I publicly post a detailed explanation of exactly what transpired that day (over two weeks ago now) with to-the-minute timestamps of everything that happened... and that's not good enough for you?
Exactly what I posted is exactly what happened. The loss of primary connectivity at the datacenter caused what would have normally been an easily filtered DDoS attack to severely saturate secondary connectivity for the entire datacenter with
hundreds thousands of machines competing for tiny slices of remaining bandwidth with latency as high as two minutes for a short period. Nothing else that could have been done to prevent this. Aside from putting in my own 4G LTE backup connection or having some alternate connectivity for the block submission paths in the future there would be nothing to be done to fix against this.
I was not trying to scald you, just pointing out that TLDR portion was incomplete without stating a fact that one block was lost.
Yes, it was stated in the long version as it being "stale". I did not see a statement like this: TLDR: was ddosed, lost one block, instead it was: pool/datacenter was ddosed, all is good now, nothing was compromised...hence my original post.
Essentially, apart from commenting I have no other issues. I don't come to this thread often, so again, apologies for bringing something of two weeks ago-this shows simply when i last looked at the thread than anything else. I am sorry that this caused some distress, which was NOT intended.