Ready tackles DDoS, validator IP whitelisting recommended
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Team discussed mechanisms to prevent exploitation and ensure long-term subnet health. Key recommendation: miners should whitelist validator IPs in nftables at the kernel level to mitigate ongoing DDoS attacks. Team acknowledged current axon IP approach cannot handle the attack scale but indicated a solution is in progress. Infrastructure security and miner-side filtering are being prioritized.
- •Miners advised to whitelist validator IPs via nftables firewall rules
- •DDoS flooding currently overwhelming existing axon IP defenses
- •Team working on solution; temporary hurdle expected to resolve soon
- •Miners encouraged to share attack data for further analysis
Distilled from 14 team messages in the official Bittensor Discord. Generated by Claude Haiku 4.5.
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