# Witnesses get DDOS'd ## Description In some cases, the witnesses themselves will be DDOS'd and will be denied access to use the application. This is critical and the following plans, ideas will help in sorting the issue to provide some solution. ## Mitigation Ideas 1. Witnesses should have a backup or DDOS protection. 2. Maintain backup node which can monitor and do automatic failover. 3. Create a basic witnesses node that can take over automatically at once the public witnesses fail. 4. Create witness backup in different location. 5. Any temporary Fallback strategy for witness outage?? 6. Any Recommendation to witnesses about some reliable DDOS protection service ?? ## Response Plan 1. Outline proper procedure to be taken during the event of DDOS attack. 2. Allocate individual resources to communicate periodically with witnesses about the protective measures and procedure to prevent DDOS attack. 3. Can vote out a witnesses who is been attacked, until they are able to get back on track 4. If attack is persistent, have some IAC (Infrastructure as code) to redeploy the witnesses elsewhere. 5. In case, if any witnesses missing blocks in a row, then Notification should pop-up. 6. Automated system messages in witness chat. ## Responder Team In order to find the solution/ to know in details about the risk that has happened, responder team is one to be communicated first. ### First Responder Team The Witness / party that notices the issue. ### Second Responder Team The witness recovery - Liasson --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://community.peerplays.com/~/changes/8PhtH7T32e0eFNJI7WpX/risk-register/introduction/core-block-issue/witnesses-get-ddosd.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.