Topic: [1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 109. (Read 837101 times)

Is the website down? I cant get in to do another id doc.  Im one of the yahoo rejects.

If Yahoo doesn't fix their OpenID service in a reasonable time frame then I have to create some automated way to securely identify who is who and add a new OpenID identity to their account. I can't do that manually with many thousands of users. I have some ideas for an automated system but let's see what Yahoo does first.

Mining works fine and all coins are secure in your account. This is only preventing Yahoo users from logging in for the time being.

One you are back in your Bitminter account you can add other logins under "my account" -> "logins" in the website menu so that you can have more than one way to log in.

thanks

I've got more than one on my account.

I have a question once yahoo fixes open id can i have a second open id set up as a backup ?

I am one who cannot get my open id to work and sent ya one of thoes hundreds of emails b4 I read this post. Lol sorry bout that but looks like your working hard and should have it running better then ever. 20000 slaved computers huh one hell of a computer virus someone made?

Status update:

Two botnets of almost 20 000 slave computers banned, plus a bunch of badly broken mining clients where I got no reply to emails for days. Mining service is looking much smoother again.

Yahoo appears to have broken their OpenID support. I have filed a bug report. I see others are also having the same problem:

http://developer.yahoo.com/forum/OpenID-General-Discussion/OpenID-login-with-Yahoo-broke-today/1386713784256-49fd81b6-7752-4c9f-8b7c-728235c46bae?msg=1

Please give Yahoo a little time to fix their stuff. And have mercy on me, I already received a couple hundred emails about this issue.

Whatever happened, my rig is now running at record speed after the restart.

We had some problems with botnets today. You probably got disconnected in the middle of that and some mining clients don't like being disconnected.

I'm sorry about that. I'm trying to handle this with a minimum of disruption to normal miners.

What the fudge happened during this shift?
No.    Completed    Duration    Difficulty    Total Thps    Your Ghps    Your score    Your work
20264    2013-12-10 23:38    1h 13m    908,350,862    355.8    

I came in to find my rig crapping itself in the corner with about 1/4 of the cores shut down and it running at 2/3rds speed.  Restarting the miner cleared the issue up.  But, it looks like it wasn't just me...  

I understand your point, but it is nice to be able to point the blade to it getwork port when you have to do updates and maintenance on your computer running the proxy. Losing a few shares vs an hour downtime seems acceptable.

P.S. almost thought I was in the wrong thread seeing your name, lol

thanks doc

Docs a busy busy person today, maybe when he's less busy he can solve a curiosity ;-p

There is currently a problem logging in using Yahoo OpenID identities. I am looking into it.

Apparently Yahoo changed something about their login mechanism today.

No need to send a support request about this. I am already on it.

Except running a blade on remote getwork is inefficient and costs you a few % of your speed since they aren't able to multi-task when submitting shares.  They also submit every diff=1 result regardless of server requirements, eating up even more time.  If you have a blade and do not run a local proxy, you're losing out on your potential.

I could understand why not to, if I person has a single blade he /she can connect straight to bitminter without the need for the proxy. That is one thing that puts bitminter ahead.

Doc,

Any reason not to block getwork requests completely?  Seems it would be a good move to force everyone into the current age.  Other pools have phased out getwork.

We had a bit of a bumpy ride earlier today as botnets and buggy clients were causing very high server load. I had to ban 11500 IP addresses.

If you have problems connecting to the pool now, contact me at [email protected] and include your IP address. You can get the IP using http://www.whatismyip.com/ or similar services.

A botnet hammering the server with getwork requests from many thousand IP addresses: banned. If you are legally mining with many computers, please connect them through a Stratum proxy to reduce the load on the server. bfgminer can do that job or Slush's Stratum proxy.

Some clients using getwork or getblocktemplate making several hundred connections to the server: banned for now. I will try to contact the users individually to get this fixed as it is not that many users. I have seen this happen with some bfgminer users (and not others). I don't know if other clients are affected or what exactly causes this issue. The easy fix is to switch to stratum. Use -o stratum+tcp://mint.bitminter.com:3333 to connect using Stratum. I have enabled Stratum on port 443 so you can use that in case you have firewall issues.

Three users opening over 1000 Stratum connections: banned. I'll look into this in more detail later.

A few users with cgminer older than version 2.7, with a bug causing it to spam the server with getwork requests. Seriously? Please upgrade your mining client. These dinosaur versions may be automatically banned in the future - this is the final notice.

The live hashrates on the websites are having intermittent issues. Sorry about that. It doesn't affect anything except the website display.

My miners are staying connected and submitting shares but the stats on the webpage keeps intermittently reporting my hashrate as zero.  I can't tell yet if it is affecting my shifts adversely or not.