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Re: [ANN][POOL] Profit switching pool - wafflepool.com
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Kalroth
on 23/03/2014, 23:36:02 UTC
just fired off an email to kalroth@gmail.com about what is happening, he probably has a better understanding about what can be done to solve this redirect problem as he is actively developing his fork of cgminer ...
There's not much I can do other than disable the reconnect code, which several individuals already have done.
I'll do a quick update of my github and binaries soon enough.

From a quick glance, it looks like someone found a way to send a spoofed* JSON packet to stratum pools, which makes the pool send a redirect request to (some of?) its clients.
It does not look like it's a bug in the client software, merely an unfortunate feature.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing