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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
DoS Attack on the Network in Progress
by
Lauda
on 20/05/2016, 06:17:58 UTC
I just banned them via core. After some time another batch connected, banned them as well. Seems to shut it down. I wonder how many other nodes are affected by this.
I haven't done that just yet. I'm trying to gather more information, but their constant disconnects are not helpful. If you take a closer look you will see that the amount of bandwidth that they spend is similar for all nodes and <1 MB. Additionally, the disconnect-reconnect interval seems to be 4559 minutes exact (although I'll have to verify this).

Update: They disconnect every after some of them reach ~59 minutes connection time and they all disconnect at the same time (number of connections dropped from 86 to 45 in 1 second) after which they imminently start reconnecting.