The pool operators should allow miners to provide the pool with an ip address where the pool can dial the miner to establish a connection...with a bit of software running on the miner's machine, it would allow the pool to initiate outbound connections to the members of the pool and operate though a bank of ip addresses that shield the pool from these DDOS attacks.
If the pools don't do something like this, then people will start resorting to setting up their own smaller, private pools if these DDOSes continue.
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Last night, I finally got around to setting up a CPU miner with port 8333 forwarded in the wake of last week's attack. It should be caught up to the block-chain within half an hour. The connection is intermittant though: if nobody uses the computer for an hour, it goes to sleep (was originally 20 minutes).
Edit: I decided to go with to go with the most power efficient "family" computer (running win7, bitcoin is running under a limited user) after finding out another computer I was considering using draws 170W at full load and probably runs at a slower speed.
Edit: I decided to go with to go with the most power efficient "family" computer (running win7, bitcoin is running under a limited user) after finding out another computer I was considering using draws 170W at full load and probably runs at a slower speed.
my miners switched from deepbit to btcmp.com, and now it works:-)
alfalfa please add masterpool.eu and rfcpool.com as working...
Not noticing anything hugely unusual @ http://blockchain.info/pools . The global hash rate is down, but it doesn't look like an attempted 51% attack.
btcguild works sometimes
masterpool seems to work fine
this is pretty bad
80% of the network or so is offline....
masterpool seems to work fine
this is pretty bad
80% of the network or so is offline....
https://rfcpool.com/ is up and running smoothly, come check it out - all welcome 
My miners are BTCGuild are running fine right now
That's odd because mine are down. Going solo. 
My miners are BTCGuild are running fine right now
A friendly reminder, pool-hopper or not, a local proxy such as BitHopper or CherryPicking, configured with multiple backup pools, is a great way to help miners mitigate attacks like this.
I've been busy chugging along at other pools while Deepbit and Eligius remain offline for the duration of this attack.
I've been busy chugging along at other pools while Deepbit and Eligius remain offline for the duration of this attack.
also there are no more big options... this is intense
Also, if everyone's miners switched to different pools and/or solo when shit like this happens, wouldn't that still keep the network safe?
Yes, but the DDOS from a week ago shows that most people didn't do either of those.
The big three are getting hit at the moment. BTCguild, Deepbit, and Slush are down.
Insert; Stupid, very lacking chat here...
Insert; Stupid, very lacking chat here...
Once again....when a pool's website goes down, that's when it stops being shown in that chart-- not when the actual mining pool goes down, so it's basically like renaming existing resources as "Other". Big deal.
Yes, the chart is certainly not an accurate measure of whether pools are operating or not. I personally mine at some of the ones that show as 'other' but have not added a 'heartbeat' report for the chart. And, why should they?
But the current DDos situation is very real.......
Once again....when a pool's website goes down, that's when it stops being shown in that chart-- not when the actual mining pool goes down, so it's basically like renaming existing resources as "Other". Big deal.
I know this. Miner's from each pool will have to report back whether they're still up or not.
reporting is not important but mining:
slush: down
eligius: down
btcguild: ok
ars: ?
deepbit: ?
...
slush: down
eligius: down
btcguild: ok
ars: ?
deepbit: ?
...
slush: down
eligius: down
btcguild: INTERMITTENT (Eleuth has a lot of practice at combating DDos and apparently one of the easier to work with upstream providers for filtering) imho...
ars: DOWN
deepbit: DOWN...
who is hitting what now?
Updated post with more info. All three were taken down less than a week ago. I guess they're back again.
reporting is not important but mining:
slush: down
eligius: down
btcguild: ok
ars: ?
deepbit: ?
...
slush: down
eligius: down
btcguild: ok
ars: ?
deepbit: ?
...
who is hitting what now?
Deepbit: Up
BTCguild: Up
Slush: Up
Ars: Up
Eligius: Up
Miners: Please find another pool or solo mine (if you're feeling lucky)
Alternative pools that are working:
bitclockers
bitcoins.lc
mainframe
bitcoinpool
abcpool
btcmine
mtred
polmine
mineco
ozcoin
eclipse MC
Master Pool
rfc pool
BTCguild: Up
Slush: Up
Ars: Up
Eligius: Up
Miners: Please find another pool or solo mine (if you're feeling lucky)
Alternative pools that are working:
bitclockers
bitcoins.lc
mainframe
bitcoinpool
abcpool
btcmine
mtred
polmine
mineco
ozcoin
eclipse MC
Master Pool
rfc pool
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