It’s funny...because I heard similar things as it was happening, from an alleged STINC employee.
After the chat discussion that night, this person subsequently deleted all of his posts that explicitly denied that it was a DDOS and explicitly admitted that it was a STINC fuck up.
So, what's the conclusion? That DDOS was a misnomer and the problems were caused by inept handling of exceptions when interfacing with an external service? Or was there a proper DDOS after all, initiated by parties unknown? And why did Sneak flag that post?
Just referring to this.
It’s funny...because I heard similar things as it was happening, from an alleged STINC employee.
After the chat discussion that night, this person subsequently deleted all of his posts that explicitly denied that it was a DDOS and explicitly admitted that it was a STINC fuck up.
Strange how that works, isn’t it?
So, what's the conclusion? That DDOS was a misnomer and the problems were caused by inept handling of exceptions when interfacing with an external service? Or was there a proper DDOS after all, initiated by parties unknown? And why did Sneak flag that post?
Hard to say. But it seems that the issues are with servers/nodes/APIs/load-balancing and other factors.
Claiming DDoS at this point seems like BS. Unless Steemit, Busy, and the blockchain itself have been under DDoS attacks for the past week and a half.