From 71d98a03b3d6cdcb57f39ca26589016b43535126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: yslcrypto Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2022 18:30:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] add warning to REST API page --- docs/the_nimbus_book/src/rest-api.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/the_nimbus_book/src/rest-api.md b/docs/the_nimbus_book/src/rest-api.md index fe65bd692..e09ddda2c 100644 --- a/docs/the_nimbus_book/src/rest-api.md +++ b/docs/the_nimbus_book/src/rest-api.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Nimbus exposes an **extremely fast** implementation of the standard [Beacon Node The API is a `REST` interface accessed via `HTTP`. **The API should not be exposed to the public Internet** unless protected by additional security: it includes multiple endpoints which could open your node to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. +> **Warning:** If you choose to run a public endpoint, do not use that same node for validation duties -- the load of the public REST endpoint is enough to interfere with your validator duties. Additionally, if you're running validators on your beacon node, and using the same instance for historical data queries (>2 epochs old), this may also interfere with your duties. + ## Test your tooling against our servers The API is available from: