All part of mining....there was an 8hr block a few days ago. Difficulty just increased a few days ago as well. Your rewarded shares should catch-up when a few lucky ones come through. I find the larger pools are luckier but over time the payout is about the same.

http://eligius.st/~wizkid057/newstats/blocks.php

Is there a white list of IPs for mining Eligius? I'm already blocking the IP that users in this thread reported but I'm sure whomever is orchestrating the attack can/will switch to a different IP(s) at some point if not already.

Right now I should be mining exclusively on Eligius, my stats look about right for the past 12hrs (when I can see the page) and I see the following established connections in my router, are these valid Eligius IPs?

107.20.237.226:3334
54.243.41.185:3334
54.243.102.91:3334

I'm new to this, I don't know if they do or don't, I should read up on stratum to have a better understanding of how it works and sniff the traffic to understand what's being sent over the wire. Can someone can explain how the hijacked work is redirected/attributed to someone else? Please excuse my inexperience/lack of understanding. From what I've read in this thread it sounds like work is hijacked and sent to another pool, is that correct? Is the theory that the stats pages are being attacked to mask what's happening to miners by preventing them from seeing their stats?

What are your pool settings on the miner? I get close to 1TH/s consistently +- 10%. The diff on the miner config is set to 256. Last difficulty reported in the miner.php page is usually 512 when I check it, sometimes higher. Also, no issues with my antminers or BFLs connecting. This last block is a doozy...

Regarding the MiTM attack that some users reported, are those users able to see the payout address used by sniffing the outgoing packets? Is there a white list of Eligius IPs I can configure in my routers for mining traffic or any other addresses other than the one reported to block?

If you read through this thread, at least the last few pages, WizKid discusses combating ongoing DDOS attacks on the stats pages/site. From what I gather the mining pool and earnings have been unaffected.

I was being impatient, looks like it just hit....the pool stats look current as well. Disregard my last post.

Question about payouts, last night I was waiting to get a payout during the 7+ hr block, I should have been paid out once that block completed according to the stats page. I just checked and it looks like my unpaid balance reset but I don't see a payout entry on the stats page. I don't have remote access to the address/wallet it pays to so I can't check right now for payment. Is this normal? Did the payment go out and my stats page isn't reflecting it? Also, are the main pools stats (newstats) updating? When I checked earlier it looked like they hadn't updated since the 4th.

Is it possible that the attacks are impacting 'luck'? Does the decreasing hash rate of the pool during these attacks have any impact luck? (or is it not really decreasing? just bad stats?) I'm new to mining so excuse me if these are dumb questions. I noticed the luck decreasing since the difficulty change, I understand that it takes longer to complete a block now but it looks like the luck calc takes that into consideration. Keep up the good work WK.


EDIT: Looks like WK answered my question while I was typing it up