[1050 TH] BitMinter.com [1% PPLNS,Pays TxFees +MergedMining,Stratum,GBT,vardiff] - page 289.

WhitePhantom

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Quote from: WhitePhantom on September 12, 2012, 02:11:40 AM

It seems that the site is down and my miners have stopped. Mining on another pool for tonight, but will be back tomorrow.

Since I have yet to try out any miner other than BitMinter, and my miners were idle, I kind of cheated to mine on a different pool last night.

I opened my hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) and set mint.bitminter.com to resolve to one of the IP addresses for mine2.btcguild.com (107.21.113.86). The idle BitMinter client immediately asked for new login credentials.

I had signed up at BTC Guild as WhitePhantom, so I just had to change my worker name in the BitMinter client to "1" and the password to "123".

The BitMinter client started mining on BTC Guild, although I was getting about a 10% reject rate for whatever reason. Still better than being idle, though. I came back over to BitMinter after about 4 hours and am glad to be back.

narousberg

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Quote from: lenny_ on September 11, 2012, 03:55:58 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 03:07:08 PM

Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 03:03:31 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

Are you using the java client?

No. I'm using BTCMiner (ztex).

Actually, BTCMiner from Ztex is writed in Java, if it matters to anyone.
Command should look like:

Code:

btcminer java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-120703.jar BTCMiner -host "http://mint.bitminter.com:8332" -u "username_workername" -p "x"

I use Ztex. Command must be so:
java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-120703.jar BTCMiner -host "http://mint.bitminter.com:8332" -u xxxxxx_xxxx -p xxxx -b "http://de.btcguild.com:8332" xxxxx_x xxxx -m c

after "-b" you can add buckup server endless. But always end with "-m c"

Mobius

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Pool back up

Meni Rosenfeld

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Cross-posted from Newbies section:

Quote from: gled on September 12, 2012, 02:20:31 AM

Been mining at bitminter since a little while now, and it seems the pool is down atm due to a disk failure.

I cannot reply on the ad-hoc topic, being just registered, but wanted to offer them to help with a backup server the time they can put the production one back online.

If a moderator comes this way, maybe he can move my post or merge it with this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=27062.1660 .

Regards,

Gled

WhitePhantom

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It seems that the site is down and my miners have stopped. Mining on another pool for tonight, but will be back tomorrow.

gyverlb

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Quote from: DrHaribo on September 11, 2012, 02:27:36 PM

Yeah, this happened with an ISP I was using. They were suddenly completely incompetent with lots of downtime. I finally gave up and switched ISP. Crossing my fingers for the disk replacement friday though.

They put the good disk (serial number verified) back and my arrays are synchronizing. So at least they don't throw disks away or in a big pile of "replacement candidates" when they remove them from your server.
I could have reinstalled this server, it's mostly a drbd slave host, but damn I would have been pissed off.

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 03:07:08 PM

Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 03:03:31 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

Are you using the java client?

No. I'm using BTCMiner (ztex).

Actually, BTCMiner from Ztex is writed in Java, if it matters to anyone.
Command should look like:

Code:

btcminer java -cp ZtexBTCMiner-120703.jar BTCMiner -host "http://mint.bitminter.com:8332" -u "username_workername" -p "x"

DrHaribo

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

Ah you are not the user I thought. Actually there are no failed logins from you in the logs. Perhaps the miner needs http:// in the URL? I haven't tried ztexminer myself.

What error message are you getting, exactly?

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks

That's the way it should look, although I believe I also made it work with a period instead of the underscore if I remember right, because some pools use that too.

Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 03:16:25 PM

Part if the beauty if bitminter is its dead easy client...try it

Sadly it doesn't support ztex FPGAs yet. I also don't know if I will have time to add support for them before ASICs are out. Not sure if it will still make sense then, but perhaps.

davidspitzer

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 03:07:08 PM

Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 03:03:31 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

Are you using the java client?

No. I'm using BTCMiner (ztex).

Part if the beauty if bitminter is its dead easy client...try it

gr0bi42

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Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 03:03:31 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

Are you using the java client?

No. I'm using BTCMiner (ztex).

davidspitzer

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:59:27 PM

Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

Are you using the java client?

gr0bi42

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Created a new worker: name=01 pass=xxx
My username: gr0bi42
Mining URL: mint.bitminter.com:8332

gr0bi42.01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42_01:xxx -> no getworks
gr0bi42:xxx -> no getworks
01:xxx -> no getworks

I have no success :-(

squid

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:43:19 PM

Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:16:59 PM

just joined your pool, right after the downtime. Now I cannot mine... worker rpc username/passwd is wrong. I double checked worker name/passwd and even created/deleted new workers. Didn't help. Any thoughts?

If you are the user I think you are then you have the username and workername right but the password wrong. I assume you are using the password you gave the worker on the worker page of the website? Make sure caps lock is off when typing the password, and if you use different keyboard language layouts that this isn't switched wrong. Can't really think of anything else.

Still, doesn't work. Created a new worker mintworker with passwd xxx. It does not work :-(
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Is your username user.work ? or are you just giving the worker name, bitminter wants username.workername for mining.

gr0bi42

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:16:59 PM

just joined your pool, right after the downtime. Now I cannot mine... worker rpc username/passwd is wrong. I double checked worker name/passwd and even created/deleted new workers. Didn't help. Any thoughts?

If you are the user I think you are then you have the username and workername right but the password wrong. I assume you are using the password you gave the worker on the worker page of the website? Make sure caps lock is off when typing the password, and if you use different keyboard language layouts that this isn't switched wrong. Can't really think of anything else.
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Still, doesn't work. Created a new worker mintworker with passwd xxx. It does not work :-(

DrHaribo

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Quote from: gr0bi42 on September 11, 2012, 02:16:59 PM

just joined your pool, right after the downtime. Now I cannot mine... worker rpc username/passwd is wrong. I double checked worker name/passwd and even created/deleted new workers. Didn't help. Any thoughts?

If you are the user I think you are then you have the username and workername right but the password wrong. I assume you are using the password you gave the worker on the worker page of the website? Make sure caps lock is off when typing the password, and if you use different keyboard language layouts that this isn't switched wrong. Can't really think of anything else.

Quote from: gyverlb on September 11, 2012, 02:00:41 PM

I guess they probably have problems with new staff doing hardware interventions.

Yeah, this happened with an ISP I was using. They were suddenly completely incompetent with lots of downtime. I finally gave up and switched ISP. Crossing my fingers for the disk replacement friday though.

gr0bi42

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Hi,

just joined your pool, right after the downtime. Now I cannot mine... worker rpc username/passwd is wrong. I double checked worker name/passwd and even created/deleted new workers. Didn't help. Any thoughts?

gyverlb

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Quote from: DrHaribo on September 11, 2012, 01:46:34 PM

Oh. My. God. I'm starting to understand why they are so much cheaper than everyone else.

What is surprising is that for more than 2 years their service was impeccable: drives fail eventually and when this happened they were changed in less than an hour or at an agreed upon appointment. The network connectivity is good too.

I guess they probably have problems with new staff doing hardware interventions.

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Everything is up and running again as normal.

New appointment to change the disk is 14.09.2012 at 12 CEST. That's friday at 10:00 UTC.

BitMinter will disappear a moment before that and I hope this time will not be gone for so long, and hopefully have a new disk when it boots back up.

Quote from: gyverlb on September 11, 2012, 01:43:07 PM

Hum, I just had a drive failure last week, they replaced it with a drive with 63 reallocated sectors and it failed yesterday. Today they removed the remaining good drive, leaving the faulty one in place !
I was quite satisfied until last week: something changed and it's not for the better.

Oh. My. God. I'm starting to understand why they are so much cheaper than everyone else.

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Quote from: DrHaribo on September 11, 2012, 01:10:46 PM

Nice customer support by Hetzner.

Hum, I just had a drive failure last week, they replaced it with a drive with 63 reallocated sectors and it failed yesterday. Today they removed the remaining good drive, leaving the faulty one in place !
I was quite satisfied until last week: something changed and it's not for the better.

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Quote from: davidspitzer on September 11, 2012, 01:02:51 PM

is there a notification that goes out when the site goes down?

I announced it the day before here and on twitter, and wrote same places when it went down (a few minutes late here, though).

I know 1 day notice isn't long, but I don't like running a degraded raid-1 array longer than necessary.

I also thought changing a disk is quick. I know it is when I do it myself.

Quote from: bigasic on September 11, 2012, 01:06:07 PM

so, will it automatically connect when everything is up? I guess at times like this its good to have a backup, lol...

Im sure you are doing all that you can, I appreciate everything... Things like this happen...

Thanks. Yeah, the website is up and the mining pool backend will be up in a second (bitcoind being slow to start up).

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