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i would recommend trying to use the proxy. i hosted it here temporarily since slush's thing is down. also in that zip is a shortcut that sets to a different server

i had the issue of only getting 8000 when not using it. but once i pointed my blade at the proxy, it is fine.
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Hey, So I just took an hour to figure out how to setup the proxy with the arguments for the pool, and it looks like Deepbit won't talk to the proxy, but I appear to have been able to connect the proxy to EclipseMC.

However, after I configured the blade, it immediately went to CHIP: xxxxxxxxxOxxxxOxxxxxxxx

Thats weird, and I got no hashing on the config page, or in the pool even after 10 minutes.    What gives?