Electrum servers are currently under a DoS attack - page 2.

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More/less just like budget required to run Bitcoin full nodes. You can run Bitcoin full nodes + electrum server on Raspberry Pi 3.

I've no idea about cloudflare integration, but there are many ways to protect server from DDoS attack such as block known malicious IP and limit request amount.

My raspberry is currently broken so my plan is to run it in AWS or DO with their free credit.

Well, I don't have much knowledge of other software only Cloudflare that I know to use to protect it from DDoS attack.

Quote from: jackg on April 08, 2019, 01:32:54 PM

Bitmaxz, is cloudflare capable of that?

I don't know but it might be possible?

Temporarily I'm using https//coinb.in for making transaction from electrum offline and get hex then broadcast it to coinb.in just to make a transaction.

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Can I downgrade electrum for it to connect. I've completely emptied my wallet so there's no risk of a phishing attack doing anything..

It's good to hear you're trying to find a solution.

Bitmaxz, is cloudflare capable of that? I though since clients connect to electrum in a manner that is similar to a bot then therell be a load of issues... If anyone has a private electrum node set up and fancies giving someone a hand the let me know. (also why don't we just try dosing that bad electrum server)....

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I thought I'm the only one who experienced syncing issue lately that is why I created transaction temporarily in coinb.in.

I was planning weeks ago to have my own Electrum server to contribute and to keep it safe to DDOS attacks and Phishing attacks but the problem how much I could spend to start a server and I don't have much knowledge protecting a server but I have little knowledge using cloudflare.

Do you have any idea how much budget do I need to start my own Electrum server and let me know if there is a guide to make a server that includes cloudflare to add a server and protect the server to DDOS attacks?

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Okay now I understand why I was/am having this connection issue. From the morning I noticed it keeps synchronising and running slow like s**t LOL

Thanks for the post.

Cheers :-)

Quote from: OmegaStarScream on April 08, 2019, 08:47:06 AM

Did anyone manage to find servers that are not being ddosed? I disabled the auto connect and I've been trying to connect to at least 10-15 servers and I still can't.

By the way, it does connect (my one is set to auto) and allow to do transaction

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Quote from: mocacinno on April 08, 2019, 08:52:37 AM

usually, those attacks don't continue that long...

There have been some syncing problems yesterday "it took more than 15 minutes" but today the wallet works well even with auto connect server.
Perhaps such solutions may be useful in the future but the situation is safe for now.

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this issue is not yet resolved? who the hell do this? the one who run malicious server maybe?

lots of my friends are having problems with electrum since yesterday. though there's a solution for this, they prefer to use auto-selection as usual.

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If the DDos attack continues, we can probably setup a private electrumX node for bitcointalk users... It's all written in python, so it shouldn't be that hard to add some authentication so non-invited users cannot connect. But usually those attacks don't continue that long...

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Did anyone manage to find servers that are not being ddosed? I disabled the auto connect and I've been trying to connect to at least 10-15 servers and I still can't.

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Electrum servers are currently under a DoS attack. We are working on a more robust version of the electrum server. In the meantime, affected users should disable auto-connect, and select their server manually.

https://twitter.com/ElectrumWallet/status/1114987055736655873

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