Quote from: Lucko on April 02, 2014, 05:24:46 AM

Quote from: gorgatron on April 01, 2014, 07:31:21 PM

Okay, I see some wonkiness took place last night for a few others, but not many.

My stats were just a bit off (not an issue, could be latency), but there was a stat/issue that was troubling. My KnC (moved to the stadard port after FW update by WK's writ!) just dropped out of the pool. No failover. Hashrate dropped from 143 GH/s to ~800 MH/s. Tried to get it going, and no dice.

My BFL units still showed they were hashing, but the stats for that ~175 GH/s dropped out, too. All that was showing was ~70 GH/s from my TechnoBit miners.

This was at around 2 am CST, I want to say, but can't be exact, unfortunately. BFGminer showed that the BFL units were hashing again at Eligius, but stats still didn't reflect this. This was an hour ago when I tried again... or was able to try again. I'm sure it was hshing, as I saw a bit of buildup in shares, so it seems the hashrate stat was mainly affected.

I've mainly just stuck to the pool despite stats, but when a miner drops the pool and won't reconnect, I decided to switch. I've taken my small op to another pool for the next hours until I hear more feedback from the pool. If all is kosher again, I'll try to move the KnC. If it will connect to the pool, I'll be good. As mentioned, I don't worry about the stats as long as I can see shares being processed. That stopped for both my BFL units (using bfgminer) and the KnC (also bfgminer). maybe just a fluke on my end with the BFL units. I just had to rebuild my system, and it's buggy. Doesn't explain the KnC instance, nor why the TechnoBit units still showed in my stats. Just odd. I've read the rest of the thread from the days I was out of commission, and noticed all the posts regarding DDoS, but didn't think it would affect the pool, nor do I still think it necessarily would. I might attribute the oddness I saw in the stats page to that, but the rest is odd. I've witnessed the network drop before, where I couldn't access Eligius nor two failovers - switched to PPC for a few hours - but this was isolated to Eligius, as far as I could tell. I had forgotten my BTCguild account and made a new one last night and connected right away. I'm there for now (until I can build up a small payout, and then try Eligius again).

Anyone else notice anything remotely similar? Just trying to figure out what might be on my end, what's up with the KnC, and why the TechnoBits never fell. lol - No panicking, just curious if anyone noticed the same issues, and if they somehow resolved them. Hope to switch back later. Just upped my donation, but guess I wasn't quick enough. lol jk Again, some of this may be on my end. I've had a lot of issues getting the BFL units working properly after rebuilding y system, and my KnC has been wonky off-and-on for a few weeks. You know, the usual. Wink

I seen same thing but on TechnoBits units. It went from 1TH to almost zero. but my total heshrate was constant. It looks like shares were not credited to worker but to my general address only. No idea why this happen. Switching off and then back on the pool solved that.

yeah, tried that. no dice. Oddly enough, two of my TechnoBit units burned up (almost literally) about 48 hrs later. I believe they were the source of another issue plaguing my system. I'm down 50 GH/s now, but at least my gear is stable.

I think I was in the middle of a post when they finally fried and tripped the PSU, causing the PC to power down. No more gear seems to be affected, so I'm cool with that.

Still, despite WK's mentioning that any loss of connectivity with the pool had to be on my side, I find it odd that the KnC just dropped out completely (also didn't switch to failover, which is odd and annoying, but likely because I was supposedly still hashing @ ~800 MH/s like an over-powered BFL FPGA lol!!!), and that then my BFL gear did the same. As I've mentioned in other posts long ago, I've had it happen that I cannot connect to any pool [that I trust], and since I use no other pools on the same port Eligius uses, or at least not BTC pools on that port and that's all I tried, it was strange that only Eligius was affected on my end, except the now deceased TechnoBit units. I've switched back to Eligius after taking care of the aforementioned HW issues, and assuming since WK says the problem was on my end, I'd likely hook up and be hashing away once more... And so it is.

I just don't like that this was the only pool affected on my end out of 5 I will dare connect to. I just went to BTC Guild for a few days to keep mining and now Eligius is working. Does anyone have ideas as to why Eligius may have been blocked by my hardware (KnC/BFL, both running bfgminer)? In case you've read one of my long-ass posts, I don't talk about/bitch about tech issues at the pool. I'm in no way qualified to do so. I can make things work, and can solve local problems, for the most part, but as to why hardware my bock access, I have no understanding. I appreciate WK making the short comment that the problem isn't on the pool's end, as that's a start, but it doesn't tell me anything, as I lack the background knowledge to understand why it would come from my end and not the pool. If it had been the pool, that would have been simple to explain away, and I wouldn't really worry, since someone else with experience is running the show. I want to know how to avoid the issue on MY end, or if it's possible.

I know I haven't given much technical info to pinpoint a cause or narrow group of causes, but I've made it clear that I don't know where to start. TO ANYONE: If you have a spare moment to put some thought into this, let me know what kind if info you'd need from me, and if I can obtain it, I will. I've essentially rebuilt my PC over the past week, and then had to install a new hard drive a day after I thought i was finished (that's when the TechnoBit units fried, and then my hard drive decided it didn't like to boot... just thankful I was able to connect it later to extract some data to save some time getting the replacement drive prepared). Sorry, I go off on tangents.

Others said the experienced similar issues, not just my fellow TechnoBit user, so if any of you have a handle on why this happens, I'm all ears.

I thought perhaps it had something to do with the attacks, but read in the meantime that the two things are completely unrelated (wasn't fully competent on the nature of DDoS attacks and the extent of damage they can do - glad they don't fuck up the pool itself, but sorry to read WK is spending his free time dealing with that nonsense, getting ransom requests, and having a shitty time from the sound of things... Hope your girlfriend hasn't been too upset about the DDoS attackers taking all your free time!!! ;P).

Glad to be connected again, and thanks to anyone with any thoughts on how I might avoid the above-described problem in the future.

gorgatron

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