Slush's Pool Down [fixed]

[ninjin]

Since...

    "If you are registering to ask a question, please ask it in the newbies section. Do not wait to ask it just because you must post it in "newbies": the question is very likely to have already been asked. If you don't end up getting good responses, you can ask it again elsewhere after you are established, or you can move the entire topic."

I guess I will have to post this here in the "newbie" forum instead of where it belongs:

    https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.5680

Hopefully things will be back to normal soon and enough, and hopefully even sooner I may be allowed to post in the rest of the forum. ^^

[nixu]

Which pool do you use as a failover from Slush's?

[Tungsten]

Oops, time to switch to btcguild ....
Thanks for the notice.

[slush]

Eh, what? 2700 GHash/s doesn't look like "pool down".

[ninjin]

@slush: Sorry to drag you into this forum and onto a new thread for this one. '^^ Here is all the diagnostics I managed to get while it was down.

I was unable to access:

* https://mining.bitcoin.cz
* http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332
* http://api2.bitcoin.cz:8332

From two independent locations for about an hour around 9AM UTC.

Annoyingly, http://bitcoin.cz worked just fine all the time.

I disagree with @tungsten by the way... you have been doing a fine job from my point of view and there is no need to be an arse and throw a fit over a single network failure reported by a single user.

@nixu: I am slush-exclusive, ergo, no fall-backs. I am mining for fun, not profit. So I will stick with what works and the people I think deserves some computational power for their pool.

[slush]

@slush: Sorry to drag you into this forum and onto a new thread for this one. '^^ Here is all the diagnostics I managed to get while it was down.

Most likely this was some local net issue, because pool was definitely up whole time. I'm using online monitoring from three continents (Europe, America, Asia), I usually receive a sms after one minute of unavailability and I didn't received any report. I was also online during the time and pool was running fine.

bitcoin.cz site is hosted in another country than the pool.

[ninjin]

Most likely this was some local net issue, because pool was definitely up whole time. I'm using online monitoring from three continents (Europe, America, Asia), I usually receive a sms after one minute of unavailability and I didn't received any report. I was also online during the time and pool was running fine.

bitcoin.cz site is hosted in another country than the pool.

I think you are more likely to be right than I am, having more diagnostics data, experience etc. So I think we'll call it a local issue. I still find it damn odd that it would fail from a network close to the back-bone and from a well-established corporate network at the same time. If you are curious, for some reason, feel free to PM me since I won't disclose the locations and providers on a public forum.