The Solana blockchain has reportedly suffered another DDoS attack that temporarily clogged the network, but the network appeared to stay online.
Solana's blockchain performance was reportedly hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack over the past 24 hours, but the network seems to possess remained online throughout.
A DDoS attack usually refers to an oversized range of coordinated devices, or a botnet overwhelming a network with fake traffic to require it offline.
This would not be the primary time Solana has suffered this issue, with Cointelegraph coverage in September that the network suffered a 17-hour-outage because of mass botting activity for an initial DEX providing (IDO) on Solana-based DEX platform Raydium.
The latest DDoS attack was highlighted by Solana-based NFT platform Blockasset on Dec. nine around 3 pm UTC, once it noted that:
“We are aware tokens are taking a long time to distribute. The Solana chain is being overloaded with DDoS attacks which have clogged the network causing delays.”
Solana-focused infrastructure firm GenesysGo conjointly reportable on the matter, stating that the validator network was experiencing problems with process dealing requests, however immersed calm because it attributed the matter to “growing pains.”
At this stage, the character of the incident is unclear as Solana Foundation is however to publically confirm any attacks, whereas standing.Solana shows that the network has not suffered any outages and is totally operational at the time of writing.
However multiple accounts on Twitter asserted that Solana suffered a world outage, with Verbit CEO Roy murphy (and BSV proponent) stating that “Solana crashed once more and is presently offline. Engineers are trying into ‘rebooting the system.’ Seriously, you cannot create this shit up!”.
Earlier nowadays members of the r/Solana subreddit attributed the network impeding to a different IDO launch on Raydium, with user “u/Psilodelic” writing a post titled “Why do Raydium IDOs clog the Solana network and what's being done regarding this?”.
“My biggest concern regarding Solana immediately is that the performance impact throughout high volume activity connected to Raydium IDOs and launches. virtually each single performance issue within the past 6 months, as well as the 17-hour outage, has been a results of a launch on Raydium,” they wrote.
( Brian Quarmby, Cointelegraph, 2021)