Topic: [CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers - page 149. (Read 903163 times)

Alright damn it. I'm a dick, but I'll apologize for being one last night. Me and the wife had a horrible argument that set me off and she's the only one in this world that knows how to press my buttons. Compounding my misery last night I also had a 4TB hard drive die on my media server which caused a big headache. Then to finally sit down and apply a new shiney firmware to my miner only to not able to connect to the Guild was too much for me to handle. It was just a really bad night.

I forgot my password,  plz help me out.  check your pm and support email.


thanks.

done

What is this high school here? I'm a DICK, get over it and deal with it. Ignore me. I was the first one to mention having connection problems and bitched about it. So what. The pool operator has to keep his public pool going just as smoothly as the private pool or that means lost revenue. If everyone jumps on the private pool then it wouldn't be private anymore, would it.

If some of your miners lost connection, that may have been why.  The frontend server's purpose is to keep the bad traffic from ever reaching the "real" mining servers.  Today that frontend server was rendered almost useless due to the scale of bad traffic hitting it, virtually killing off the ability for any legitimate traffic to get through.

Anybody already connected did not suffer any issues or downtime, since they were no longer connected to that frontend server.  I'm sorry that the downtime for that server was as bad as it was (~6 hours).  I've been spending most the day unable to get out of bed due to illness.  I've been checking my phone every few hours to make sure things were working.  Until recently, there was no visible sign of anything wrong (pool speed was in the 3300-3400 TH/s range through 11:30 PM, which is the expected speed).  It was only when I checked around 1 AM that the pool speed had decreased (from 3360 to 3060).  Since the frontend server is *expected* to have spurts of downtime due to attacks (DDoS, botnet, or other), it doesn't cause the same alarms to trigger that the backend servers do.

However, since the server did have an issue that didn't fix itself as it normally does, it's now set to trigger the standard alarms for the next 24 hours if another event occurs.

IveIve notice about a drop of about 10gh/s overall today. Not too sure as to why. Most of my stuff runs really stable. Just a heads up.

The frontend server was getting slammed by a couple of botnets extremely heavily today (ranging from 30,000 to 90,000 stratum connections simultaneously).  It's been restarted and a few new rules added to prevent those connections from ever getting established to the server process and locking things up.

Public and private servers had no problems during this event, which is the entire point of that frontend server.  Only *new* connections (or miners restarting) were affected.

Well, here's hoping the laptop doesnt bluescreen lol.

Not even sure if I want to submit this post as I might knock myself in the ass lol

Lol

yes, existing connections are good, just don't reboot as the server seems to be refusing new connections

its not like that at all, he set them up when the pool was experiencing substantial DDOS attacks and pretty much lets anyone who asks (nicely) in

Btw, private servers shouldn't be a surprise to you... if you've ever bothered to read the thread title.

I don't know what the deal is with everyone on the US server but I'vee been mining on it just fine for the pas 36hrs.

Sorry, I'd rather not play circle jerk with the boys and get all giddy cause I'm on a private server. I'll just switch over to Eligius if this can't be taken care of soon. It has only been about 5 hours or so.

Same here, my miners haven't been able to connect for hours on the US servers, but switched them over to EU and mining away again. The BTC page shows both servers are online though.  Maybe they limit number of connections now to avoid 51% like Ghash.io?

Add me in eleuthria, I don't IRC but happy to swing my rigs over to see how it goes.

Hey, why don't you ask for access?  If you have some significant hashing power I'm sure eleuthria would be happy to oblige.

But then again, you're such a DICK he might not.

So us public scum bags pay the same fees you pay but you have access to "private" servers we can't access? Nepotism at its best here. I guess the fees I pay aren't that good to get into the "private" club.

He was doing major upgrades to the servers and apparently something went wack. I'm just wondering where he is now. Before he gets hundreds of people dropping to other pools because they cannot connect you'd think he'd be around since major changes were just done. I'm able to connect to Eligius,  and other pools, and right now if I reboot my rig looks like I won't be able to connect to any BTC Guild server.

I am unable to connect to neither US nor EU.