How Solana Shrugged Off a 6 Tbps DDoS
•NullRabbit Research•6 min read
Solana reportedly absorbed a sustained ~6 Tbps volumetric DDoS attack with no downtime. That's real progress. It's also not the same thing as being protected.
Solana reportedly absorbed a sustained ~6 Tbps volumetric DDoS attack with no downtime. That's real progress. It's also not the same thing as being protected.
I assumed Cloudflare would protect me from all denial-of-service attacks. It doesn’t. A reality check on origin IP bypasses, non-HTTP floods, and why the gap between the edge and your kernel matters.
Demonstrating the complete XDP detection pipeline with MQTT eventing. Shows kernel-level SYN-flood detection, userspace processing, and real-time remote alerting - all in milliseconds.