[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers - page 394.

sadpandatech

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Quote from: eleuthria on June 15, 2012, 09:48:46 AM

This gets suggested every time. Whitelists DO NOT WORK because the bad connections will still hit your server before they get turned down.

ayeee.

Do we know what kind of packets they are sending? Seems as small as the packets for mining should be that we could filter out some crap on the upstream side, no?

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Quote from: af_newbie on June 15, 2012, 09:34:22 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on June 15, 2012, 09:25:39 AM

Quote from: rjk on June 15, 2012, 08:57:07 AM

Quote from: nbtcminer on June 15, 2012, 08:54:56 AM

good work! Any word on what the IP of the attacker is?

lol. A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack - i.e., there are thousands of computers performing the attack, of which none would belong to the attacker since all he does is coordinate them.

That's the real problem. The other problem is they're DDoS'ing a mining pool. A server that is constantly being bombarded by anywhere from 1500 to 2500 random IP addresses. Makes it very tough to even get a list of bad IPs.

Why don't you add client IPs (say 3 is the limit) into user settings panel? And lock them as you do with the payout address.
And block every IP that is not in your white list. Legit users will be able to connect to your mining pool server.

It will be harder for attackers to create/update accounts and (impossible to) change IPs.

This gets suggested every time. Whitelists DO NOT WORK because the bad connections will still hit your server before they get turned down.

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Quote from: af_newbie on June 15, 2012, 09:34:22 AM

Why don't you add client IPs (say 3 is the limit) into user settings panel? And lock them as you do with the payout address.
And block every IP that is not in your white list. Legit users will be able to connect to your mining pool server.

That would only work if all pool users had static IPs.

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1ngldh

Sounds like a lot of work that would scare off the newbies, more work than letting the skiddies spend money on a DDoS when they could be doing other productive things.

And if they run their own botnet instead of paying for it, it will be more likely that they will get found out and shut down faster.

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Quote from: eleuthria on June 15, 2012, 09:25:39 AM

Quote from: rjk on June 15, 2012, 08:57:07 AM

Quote from: nbtcminer on June 15, 2012, 08:54:56 AM

good work! Any word on what the IP of the attacker is?

lol. A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack - i.e., there are thousands of computers performing the attack, of which none would belong to the attacker since all he does is coordinate them.

That's the real problem. The other problem is they're DDoS'ing a mining pool. A server that is constantly being bombarded by anywhere from 1500 to 2500 random IP addresses. Makes it very tough to even get a list of bad IPs.

Why don't you add client IPs (say 3 is the limit) into user settings panel? And lock them as you do with the payout address.
And block every IP that is not in your white list. Legit users will be able to connect to your mining pool server.

It will be harder for attackers to create/update accounts and (impossible to) change IPs.

eleuthria

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Quote from: rjk on June 15, 2012, 08:57:07 AM

Quote from: nbtcminer on June 15, 2012, 08:54:56 AM

good work! Any word on what the IP of the attacker is?

lol. A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack - i.e., there are thousands of computers performing the attack, of which none would belong to the attacker since all he does is coordinate them.

That's the real problem. The other problem is they're DDoS'ing a mining pool. A server that is constantly being bombarded by anywhere from 1500 to 2500 random IP addresses. Makes it very tough to even get a list of bad IPs.

rjk

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Quote from: nbtcminer on June 15, 2012, 08:54:56 AM

good work! Any word on what the IP of the attacker is?

lol. A DDoS is a Distributed Denial of Service attack - i.e., there are thousands of computers performing the attack, of which none would belong to the attacker since all he does is coordinate them.

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good work! Any word on what the IP of the attacker is?

eleuthria

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Servers should be coming back up very soon.

aqrulesms

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Website and pool servers seem to be down.

nbtcminer

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Pool speed is down, are you under attack now?? Can't connected to most of the servers

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Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 11:58:12 AM

... I dont want any nmc ...

So just create an account at Vircurex and sell off your NMC for BTC there.

They'll send email notifications when your coins arrive, and get traded, so once you have your account created, grab your NMC deposit addy from there, and set BTCGuild up to auto-payout to that addy.

Then, when the NMC payout happens, and Vircurex sends you the email about your deposit, just sell for BTC, and voila! Bonus BTC!

-- Smoov

edit: oh, and as for the DDoS threats, feel free to add my BTC P2Pool node (listed below) as a backup pool if any of you like. Use a BTC address as your username to get your payouts generated directly into your wallet, any password. Works same as solo mining, but based on PPLNS. Can't have too many backups Cheesy

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Did they wait for you to go to sleep? Seems the pool and frontends are down.

Quote from: eleuthria on June 14, 2012, 11:07:54 AM

More threats coming in, nothing hitting yet. Obviously not very involved in Bitcoin. They seem to think pools make 10x more profit than they actually do. Still stressing that any miners on BTC Guild should have multiple backup pools setup just in case.

haha yea, that was the first thought that came to mind. They do realize you make a whopping 2.5BTC per mined block right? So it is really the users they should be trying to ransom..

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Quote from: organofcorti on June 14, 2012, 09:52:39 PM

Quote from: eleuthria on June 14, 2012, 11:21:45 AM

Quote from: Clipse on June 14, 2012, 11:10:59 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on June 14, 2012, 11:07:54 AM

More threats coming in, nothing hitting yet. Obviously not very involved in Bitcoin. They seem to think pools make 10x more profit than they actually do. Still stressing that any miners on BTC Guild should have multiple backup pools setup just in case.

lol, care to list the $ demand they ask for ?

1st Threat: $1000
2nd Threat: $500
3rd Threat: $1000
4th Threat: $2500
5th Threat: $1000

Very inconsistent demands if you ask me.

Huh. That post was a "wtf?" moment for me. Some script kiddy threatens a bitcoin pool but demands traceable cash?

To be fair, they asked for it via LibertyReserve, which is basically a money laundering front for the vast majority of its users. But yes, all demands were straight USD. I suppose its to save them the trouble of converting it from BTC->USD->LR.

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Poor impulse control.

Quote from: eleuthria on June 14, 2012, 11:21:45 AM

Quote from: Clipse on June 14, 2012, 11:10:59 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on June 14, 2012, 11:07:54 AM

More threats coming in, nothing hitting yet. Obviously not very involved in Bitcoin. They seem to think pools make 10x more profit than they actually do. Still stressing that any miners on BTC Guild should have multiple backup pools setup just in case.

lol, care to list the $ demand they ask for ?

1st Threat: $1000
2nd Threat: $500
3rd Threat: $1000
4th Threat: $2500
5th Threat: $1000

Very inconsistent demands if you ask me.

Huh. That post was a "wtf?" moment for me. Some script kiddy threatens a bitcoin pool but demands traceable cash?

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You can sell your NMC for a fraction of some BTC's Tongue

I noticed the DDOS attack thing on the main site... I use you guys as my back up pool..... You were my primary

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Quote from: Fiyasko on June 14, 2012, 11:58:12 AM

Could someone explan to me please how: I am mining both NMC and BTC without hurting my btc gain? Am i missing something? I dont want any nmc, So it states to just ignore them, So i do, but how is it possible for me to be mining BOTH coins without impacting my bitcoin mining performance?

Merged mining uses Bitcoin hashes to solve Namecoin blocks. You're doing the exact same work you were doing before. A little extra work is done by the pool server, but the performance cost is non-existent since our pool software generates the getworks internally, rather than using bitcoind/namecoind.

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Okey Dokey Lokey

Could someone explan to me please how: I am mining both NMC and BTC without hurting my btc gain? Am i missing something? I dont want any nmc, So it states to just ignore them, So i do, but how is it possible for me to be mining BOTH coins without impacting my bitcoin mining performance?

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1ngldh

Ask them for a paypal email address to send to. Cool

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scratches head....

If they had that much zombie power would it not be easer to just mine.

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