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Re: Claymore's ZCash AMD GPU Miner v9.3 (Windows/Linux)
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m1n1ngP4d4w4n
on 30/12/2016, 13:40:50 UTC
thank you!

@claymore:

"- added support for round robin DNS"

I'm not a network specialist, so I ask what that means and why is that feature good for us?

I red about round robin but I didn't find the answer. Sorry if it's a dummy question.


Round robin is a method of load-balancing that will allow 1 FQDN (ie : something.pool.org) to reply multiples with IP addresses, it can help when one IP isn't replying fast enough, you can have several others host IP to contact as a backup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin_DNS

For the claymore miner, it would probably mean better timeout/resolve handling in case of the first IP adress of the pool DNS record is unavailable or slow it'll try to contact the others, must not have been the case before. Will probably help for stale shares (share calculated by you but with a result already being submitted by someone on the same pool as you).

It would probably help too big farm that could be throttled by some pools limiting the amount of request per remote IPs.