Wondering why verium and vericoin clients are missing the addnode command. Those 2 doesnt even try to connect to any hosts listed in .conf. vericoin.info is the only node in peers.dat file and its down - so no new miners allowed inside.
What do you mean? Can you post your conf file? Are you on the most up-to-date client? Click node list next to 1.7.1:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/vrc/#!network and try forcing using connect= and see if you get connections. If not, it could be a firewall issue.