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1  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Help with error - LookupError: unknown encoding: idna on: December 17, 2013, 09:15:30 AM
I get the exact same idns error connecting to eu-stratum.btcguild.com in guiminer on btcguild:

Code:
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Running command: poclbm.exe tophertronic_ChrisCooper:1234@eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1 
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Listener for "BTC Guild EU" started
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:03:49, checking for stratum...
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:03:49, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (Pitcairn)
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:03:49, no response to getwork, using as stratum
2013-12-17 09:03:49: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:03:49, Setting new difficulty: 2
2013-12-17 09:04:31: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:04:31, eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 asked us to reconnect to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com:3333 in 0 seconds
2013-12-17 09:04:31: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:04:31, eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 reconnecting to eu-stratum-lb489kj.btcguild.com:3333
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": eu-stratum.btcguild.com:3333 17/12/2013 09:04:42, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": Traceback (most recent call last):
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": File "poclbm.py", line 95, in <module>
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": File "Switch.pyo", line 98, in loop
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": File "StratumSource.pyo", line 94, in loop
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": File "socket.pyo", line 224, in meth
2013-12-17 09:04:42: Listener for "BTC Guild EU": LookupError: unknown encoding: idna

Receives a few shares, and then fails over.
I tried connecting to stratum.btcguild.com insterad and that does the exact same thing.

I've tried cgminer as well, but that doesn't even seem to connect to eu-stratum.btcguild.com with the following error:
Code:
Pool 0 http://stratum.btcguild.com:3333 not responding!

Did you manage to get it working at all?
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