The current DDoS attack on Hive Engine nodes is over now. One of the top Hive Engine witnesses has found out the root cause and the witnesses have implemented a way to stop this attack from happening.
We can say that we are good for now until the attacker comes up with another way to attack #hiveengine.
If you still want to keep hating Hive Engine and spread false news please go ahead. Remember that nobody have a better alternative ready with them before they trash talk without even trying to understand what the problem was.
p.s - I'm not a part of Hive Engine team or associated with them except for the fact that I run a public HE node.
That's good info. The thing here is, there was no info available for a week. Nothing. Tried asking on their Discord and no one said anything about an DDoS attack. In fact, no one said anything but the usual "change nodes".
I've said it before and I say it again: to prevent false info & FUD, the teams need to inform users better. In my opinion, Inleo is a good forum to do that for example.
Changing the nodes was definitely the solution and by the way nobody knew that it was an intentional DDoS attack during the initial days. We all thought that the public nodes were overloaded due to some bad query by someone.
I agree with you on the communication part but sometimes I also feel that nobody is actually available to represent on behalf of Hive Engine and there is no active development too which has always been a concern.
What I understood from the Discord discussion, the Hive-Engine kinda wants users to start using to Tribaldex and what I read between the lines is the focus is on developing that instead of H-E.
To me it would be ok but Tribaldex is missing some features I was used on H-E such as displaying total value of account.
Oh my! Good to hear the attack has been stopped. Hope it won't happen again. Thanks for the info. I just noticed LeoDex being down after a screenshot of it was posted here on threads.
Yeah let's hope the attacker stops right here. Otherwise it is becoming a big head ache for everyone.
Kudos to those who stopped it. Hope there will be solutions in place too just in case the attacker plans on hitting it again.
It’s good news for hivers. Thank you for sharing.
Cheers!
so any idea of origin of the attack?
No idea but this keeps happening from time to time. Most of the time it is from a few IP addresses.
Oh what? It was some sort of attack? I didn't expected this but I'm glad it's safe and we're back to normal.
I thought nodes are down because of the activity on hive.
Yeah it was because of an attack and usually happens quite a few times. In the past it happened for different reasons and now it was a different reason. Every time an attack happens we actually get stronger.
Well, I did put in a support ticket about the issue and they replied it was probably on my end. They didn't report the problem to the users, so without knowing about what trash was talked and why, I'd say your last paragraph is a bit harsh.
Yeah, it lasted over a week and they didn't inform the users about it. Can't really blame the users here...
Thank you for this. #freecompliments
This is the first time I read the shit was caused by a DDoS attack. Good to read the cause was found and things will probably start to work well again. Thanks for sharing!
The good thing is that some people were able to build few alternative user interfaces for Hive Engine and many people started using private nodes too.
Yes that's good. The only thing I thought was possible was indeed changing nodes, I didn't read anything about an attack before reading your comment here.
I did not criticize the team or the project work as it is fantastic but I do lament the absolute and complete lack of communication during this horrible two weeks.
The people was literally acting as if nothing happened, Leoing about Music.
Thats definitely a thing and I agree with you on that.