[CLOSED] BTC Guild - Pays TxFees+NMC, Stratum, VarDiff, Private Servers - page 395.

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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.

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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 ?

eleuthria

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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.

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Not many admins use abuse reports, but they often can be more effective than some realize. Some guy over at WHT wrote a post with some scripts that could do some automated parsing of abuse emails from whois based on a list of IP addresses here: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=8163729&postcount=2
You could probably tweak that and then use it to email various ISPs with complaints.

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Quote from: DeepBit on June 14, 2012, 10:12:22 AM

Looks like your hashrate is not decreased... You have a good ddos protection ?

They hit me yesterday morning, took it down for like 3 minutes to show off they can take me down. Since then I've just been getting a LOT of emails with different demands for cash through LibertyReserve. They did another attack on the webserver yesterday for maybe 15 minutes? I'm waiting to see what happens, since their latest emails used Deepbit as an "example" of what will happen if I don't pay up.

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Looks like your hashrate is not decreased... You have a good ddos protection ? :)

eleuthria

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Still getting emails threatening that BTC Guild is going to be DDoS'd again. Hopefully everybody mining here has at least another pool (or p2pool/local bitcoind) setup as a backup. I would highly recommend all users have MULTIPLE backup pools configured in their mining software. Additionally, make sure you have SMALLER pools in your backup list! A large attacker could very easily put down the largest pools simultaneously. The smaller the pool, the less likely they are to be targeted [though they are also probably easier targets if they do get targeted].

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Quote from: bitlane on June 13, 2012, 09:50:32 PM

I am getting alot of Get & Send Work connection errors as of late using btcguild.com:8332 as my Primary pool.

In Western Canada, would it be better for me to use either mine2.btcguild.com:8332 ...or... mine3.btcguild.com:8332 for my PRIMARY POOL instead ?

I normally use a setup like this in CGMiner, using BTCGuild mine2 and mine3 as backup pools to regular btcguild.com:8332 as my primary:

PRIMARY: btcguild.com:8332
POOL #2: mine3.btcguild.com:8332
POOL #3: mine3.btcguild.com:8332
POOL #4: Localhost/Solo Mining Server

mine2 and mine3 are ALWAYS recommended over mine1. You go from a server with 2000+ LP connections active to only 500 when you switch to mine2/mine3 because too many people use default settings. Were you just recently getting the errors? The little DDoS'ers sent an email threat roughly the time you posted, so there may have been some packet loss if they even hit at all.

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I am getting alot of Get & Send Work connection errors as of late using btcguild.com:8332 as my Primary pool.

In Western Canada, would it be better for me to use either mine2.btcguild.com:8332 ...or... mine3.btcguild.com:8332 for my PRIMARY POOL instead ?

I normally use a setup like this in CGMiner, using BTCGuild mine2 and mine3 as backup pools to regular btcguild.com:8332 as my primary:

PRIMARY: btcguild.com:8332
POOL #2: mine3.btcguild.com:8332
POOL #3: mine3.btcguild.com:8332
POOL #4: Localhost/Solo Mining Server

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Quote from: rjk on June 13, 2012, 10:05:52 AM

Quote from: eleuthria on June 13, 2012, 10:04:07 AM

I received an email trying to extort some money with threat of DDoS this morning. Website is temporarily offline, though the DB server is still running and mining servers aren't getting hit too hard. You may have some packet loss, but shares are still going through fairly well.

More skiddies on summer vacation. Roll Eyes

Yeah, that's my guess. The attack this morning was kind of fun compared to what pool operators got used to from last summer's attacks.

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Quote from: eleuthria on June 13, 2012, 10:04:07 AM

I received an email trying to extort some money with threat of DDoS this morning. Website is temporarily offline, though the DB server is still running and mining servers aren't getting hit too hard. You may have some packet loss, but shares are still going through fairly well.

More skiddies on summer vacation. Roll Eyes

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I received an email trying to extort some money with threat of DDoS this morning. Website is temporarily offline, though the DB server is still running and mining servers aren't getting hit too hard. You may have some packet loss, but shares are still going through fairly well.

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Quote from: Nancarrow on June 12, 2012, 04:52:07 AM

Does this also explain the weird blip I've just seen in my hash rate graphs over the last 24 hours? At about 1pm, June 11, for an hour or so, all three of my rigs apparently 'doubled' their hash rate! (Incidentally what IS the time that appears on those highcharts.com graphs? I'm in the UK, where it's now nearly 11am, and the last data points on the 24-hour graphs say 05:08)

Yes, that's why you saw the blip on your charts. It's the same thing that happened a few weeks ago when there was a small DB connection problem between the webserver and the DB server. Since the script to calculate your hash rate only executes once per hour (and doesn't have any sort of retry-on-fail), if it misses an hour, the following hour shows twice as many shares as normal. Since the previous hour has -no data-, it doesn't show a drop to 0 followed by a jump to double, it simply shows a steady growth from 2 hours prior.

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Does this also explain the weird blip I've just seen in my hash rate graphs over the last 24 hours? At about 1pm, June 11, for an hour or so, all three of my rigs apparently 'doubled' their hash rate! (Incidentally what IS the time that appears on those highcharts.com graphs? I'm in the UK, where it's now nearly 11am, and the last data points on the 24-hour graphs say 05:08)

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for i in `seq 1 1000`; do mysql -u root --password=bad -h 127.0.0.1 2>/dev/null; done
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This one? ^^

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Quote from: melco on June 11, 2012, 11:16:48 AM

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Failed to connect to BTC Guild database. Please try again later.

for me now. For 30min at least

Sorry about that, some MySQL vulnerabilities were released today and I was doing some testing to make sure BTC Guild was not vulnerable. Allowances were made for the pool servers, so all shares were still being recorded during that time.

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same here, but the miners are still mining, thats the important thing Cheesy

EDIT - back up now Cheesy

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Failed to connect to BTC Guild database. Please try again later.

for me now. For 30min at least

eleuthria

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Just posting a friendly reminder to users that are not in the US: We do have a server based in Germany! Simply point your miner to http://de.btcguild.com:8332 to use it! It's not getting used nearly as much as the old EU servers, so I suspect quite a few of you aren't aware it exists

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Quote from: eleuthria on June 06, 2012, 06:37:25 AM

This should be fixed now. Earlier today the hot wallet ran low due to some bad luck last week paired with a large spike in withdrawals due to the price increase. A few automatic payouts were also stuck due to the problem. Those missing automatic payouts should be processed in 20 minutes with the next batch.

Yes, it works now. Thank you.

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