Guessing someone is ddosing the pools out there.
Are we watching someone trying to fork the chain? coinedup had suspended LOT trading a little earlier. Guess they are afraid of double spend.
Look at the block find list... Just filled to the rim of unknown and zero shares.
Now this might just be another hiccup from the buggy daemon. But one should expect someone is trying to lower diff for own personal gain, or forking it.
I recommend people setting up several nodes/solo mining as failover option in cgminer!
The zero shares are all fixed - Out of order shares hit the DB and i've spent the last half hour unpicking the mess manually. All clean now though.
Yes - everyone that touches Lotto get's DDoSed, EVERY single server I have that is assigned to LOT is getting hit. The EU server is still being DDoSed as we speak... Unfortunately fine-tuning DDoS protection to block only the crap yet allow everything else takes time to perfect. As the attacks continue, we get better at mitigating them.
We may be a but wobbly for the next however long but we will be sticking around for the forseeable future. Don't forget the failovers as Svennand suggests.
Also
make sure you set up failover to ALL of our stratum servers. The main pool and DB doesn't go down, it's only the stratums that get hit... we have enough on LOT that should mean you can continue mining regardless.