Quote from: GOATCoin on February 05, 2014, 12:21:33 PM

Quote from: snopygobit on February 05, 2014, 09:23:29 AM

http://goat.p2p.0x0a.nl:22646/static/ pool is down

Just messaged 0btc (the creator). He should get it fixed soon but for now there are two other pools you can use mate

Thanks for the message. By the time I got to it, it was back up - no restart or anything. I'm going to dig through the logs to find out what happened.. Apologies for the downtime :[!

Update: P2Pool was set to Persist mode - which worked all up to the point that the node at coinminer.net disconnected at 09:54:46. When coinminer.net reconnected at 13:11:05, P2Pool had its network again and resumed work.

The Persist feature is there to make sure no forks happen in the P2Pool share system, by explicitly doing nothing until a network is formed by two or more connected nodes - but I obviously made a grave mistake in keeping that enabled. I've set it to false and restarted the pool so that this doesnt happen again.

For other node operators; as long as my pool is running and in the BOOTSTRAP_ADDRS, you can leave Persist enabled - though it wasnt distributing work to miners, it was still running. Setting it to false wouldn't necessarily be bad though.