Make sure you add this entry via web panel !
Yep, that is what I was doing. After that didn't work through several iterations, I tried killing leaserigproxy, updating pools.conf and starting it back up. Same result.
If you do manual modification of pools.conf it won't work. The only way to change pools during lease time is via web. This is feature wanted by many so I implemented it.
That makes sense, and is what I expected. I only attempted it after the web interface completely failed and kept inserting the same dead server while serially removing the actual live one.
my customer has exactly the same problem.
the pool switch every few minutes to "stratum+tcp://wdc.cryptodiggers.eu
:80". but this is a dead port. when he change it on your site it wouldnt save for long.
i didnt do anything with my rig, so it shouldnt be a problem on my site.