Topic: [DEAD] DeepBit.net PPS+Prop,instant payouts, we pay for INVALID BLOCKS too - page 236. (Read 1601352 times)

What router?  I highly recommend the D-Link DIR-655 or DIR-855 (I use the latter).  Use DNS Relay and setup on your router to use a DNS that is not your ISP.  Good options are:

Google DNS http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

OpenDns http://www.opendns.com/
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

I use Google DNS, but frankly, I wonder about their information gathering these days.  OpenDNS is also very good and you do not have to sign up either, but they also may gather data [and you can actually use this data to monitor activity from your network which uses DNS, if you sign up for a free account].  They are both fantastic, but most of the time, I have found Google DNS to perform just a little better .... far better than Comcast most of the time in spite of the fact that they are out of the ISP network.  Your router should cache by TTL anyway [or memory limits].  If your router does not have this option, then set it up individually on your mining machine, or setup a DNS of your own on one of your mining rigs [especially if you are running linux ... just install bind and learn how to configure it] and point the rest of your machines at it instead.  OpenDNS does have a nice option to use the last known address for a lookup if it fails to find a current one ... thus often keeping you connected when you might otherwise not be.

I am just assuming the issue is DNS related, but it very well could be connectivity related.  Perhaps your ISP is not multi-homed, or it is overloaded; a common problem with QWest DSL using MSN for instance ... which is why most of who I know moved to Comcast or Charter depending upon where they live.

I too have seen these communication errors every now and again and they are only a minute or two in duration and it is usually when Tycho was doing maintenance.  There were some issues with growth awhile back, but I think Tycho has done a decent job of trying to balance the network [appears to be using a basic DNS load balancer which is why I was suggesting DNS ... your ISP may not be honoring the TTL as it should].

Do you have any torrent clients in your home network?

I have problems with connection, which U could maybe solve.

Sometimes my router can't connect to random pages ( last one was bitwatch.com). Page is 'unreachable' until I restart my router. This wasn't problem, but few days ago I noticed it also blocks mining since deepbit.net was the 'blocked' page. Today same happened. I have routers firewall turned off, but this doesn't help. Do u have any idea what can I do to solve this?

What does it mean:
25.05.2011 11:21:11   0h 29m    - Invalid - X.XXXXXX

that thread mentions nothing about setting up your own "master" to hand out shares to your workers...

I found one such in 30 seconds. 

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9565.0

 

I can't find a single thread that mentions setting up a master that hands out shares to workers... please provide a link or something

Anyone else unable to connect to deepbit?  I'm using Pheonix.

Edit:  Finally connected, just took several tries.

Search the forum or Google is your friend.  It is all there.  Unless you have have a lot of hashing power at your disposal [probably 2+GH/s] I wouldn't even consider it ... and the difficulty is about to go up 66% thanks to all the ding dongs bringing massive hardware online that probably won't pay itself off due to difficulty normalizing the the mining back towards 6Blocks/Hr.

how would i do that?

extra_nonce.

Uhm ... even if a unit of work is one byte [which it most surely is not that small], that would make a block about 4GB.  I am not sure where you got that number from.

You should set up a master that hands out shares to your workers.  That avoids duplication.

what would happen if I was solo mining?

We don't have 4 billion miners yet

No, the pool will be giving them different shares to work on [well, most likely anyway, I think the same shares can be given out if there are more workers available for work than there is work in a block].

I have 2 5850s mining, is it better to crossfire them or just use them as two separate workers?

Also something I dont understand: If I have two separate workers running at the same time, won't they basically be competing against each other and trying to solve the same problem at the same time instead of working together to solve one problem faster?

Is there any chance deepbit will have a port 80/443 service in addition to 8332 ?

This is really needed in cases of NATs/institution firewalls ...
Other pools have it too, i wonder if deep is planning to have one (pretty simple to configure a forwarding on the web server from 80 to 8332)


Sorry for posting if this has been discussed already (i searched but you can't search a topic only the whole forum)

Deepbit is not large now. Its less than 40% of total network.
http://www.bitcoinwatch.com/

Deepbit was down a few minutes when you posted, the hashrate is going back up now