[0Th]Ozcoin Pooled Mining |DGM 1%|Stratum+VarDiff port 80|NEW CN mining|

[Hippie Tech]

So ! Guiminer is not to blame ! lol Take that ! Abracanoob ! :p

This DNS issue cost me about two days of mining with what little mhash/s I have. That, combined with a little bad pool luck, earned me .03btc during that time.

Equally depressing was seeing how fast my round credit went away.

Is the pool's website down ?

[crazyates]

Au stratum server seems to be working...somewhat.

[Graet]

all the servers are working fine - our paid DNS provider is offline
main site /WWW http://110.173.227.109/
mining URLS - you will need to add your usual port
us.ozco.in   67.210.248.14  ecoinpool only
eu.ozco.in  176.9.187.104  ecoinpool only
au.ozco.in 59.167.117.97  ecoinpool and stratum
stratum.ozco.in   192.198.93.133  stratum only
eustratum.ozco.in  62.113.214.133  stratum only

I am looking at other solutions, currently the site is up and everything is working by IP
sorry for the inconvenience
Graet

[Graet]

despite the issues greatwolf found us a block

[Graet]

a perfect storm?
my domain registrar

5 Dec 2012 
Unexpected Network Downtime
Please be advised that we are encountering an unexpected outage affecting some hosting services (email, websites etc).

on the same day as paid DNS down - or is it a conspiracy

so currently I cannot change DNS provider
Please mine by IP - I will resolve this when I am able
cheers
Graet

[Jack1Rip1BurnIt]

How do I mine by IP? I'm using cgminer

[Graet]

How do I mine by IP? I'm using cgminer

in your mining url replace (for example) stratum.ozco.in:3333 with 192.198.93.133:3333 either in your command line, .bat or config file depending on node/protocol you use

[Graet]

Aaaand DNS is back
should have stayed in bed an extra hour and missed al, the fun 

[Jack1Rip1BurnIt]

Thanks

[Blaksmith]

Looks like the DNS host is down yet again ... Please continue to use by IP until we are 100% sure things are back to normal.

all the servers are working fine - our paid DNS provider is offline
main site /WWW http://110.173.227.109/
mining URLS - you will need to add your usual port
us.ozco.in   67.210.248.14  ecoinpool only
eu.ozco.in  176.9.187.104  ecoinpool only
au.ozco.in 59.167.117.97  ecoinpool and stratum
stratum.ozco.in   192.198.93.133  stratum only
eustratum.ozco.in  62.113.214.133  stratum only

I am looking at other solutions, currently the site is up and everything is working by IP
sorry for the inconvenience
Graet

Edit: I found out that my local cache is still being a pain... URL's resolve now...

[Graet]

Over the next 24 hours we will be migrating to CloudFlare www.cloudflare.com for DNS and CDN and other advantages
There might be some interruption to name services so if needed please use the IPs listed in previous post to connect to pool and mining nodes.

Cheers
Graet

[Chris Weber]

disadvantages of central infrastructure.. perhaps namecoin could solve this ?

[Graet]

disadvantages of central infrastructure.. perhaps namecoin could solve this ?

I think that was the idea behind it, unfortunately it has not developed as much as hoped

In other news cloudflare is activated on ozcoin.net and ozco.in - DNS may take some time to update though

[Chris Weber]

Mh, the point I see is: it would force the miners to run a nmc-daemon for having an own "dns-server".
But other disadvantages I do not see right now, as time to sync etc. seems not to be better with dns.
and this could save some costs for hosting a pool when we think some time ahead because you can (merge)mine sufficient nmc to "pay" the system..

so what needs to be solved that you want to jump in?

[mdude77]

disadvantages of central infrastructure.. perhaps namecoin could solve this ?

I like ozcoin, I really do.  But p2pool is decentralized and can't be knocked off like this.

M

[Chris Weber]

very true but p2pool has other issues that cost miners revenues (I mean beside the work running the pool themself and keeping it up to date / state of the art..) e.g. with increased stealth rate .. or is that solved already?

[mdude77]

very true but p2pool has other issues that cost miners revenues (I mean beside the work running the pool themself and keeping it up to date / state of the art..) e.g. with increased stealth rate .. or is that solved already?

It's been performing equivalently or better than any "standard" pool for months now.  The recent upgrade to v9 has increased the stale rate, but that doesn't seem to have decreased the number of blocks it finds.

http://p2pool.info/

M

[juhakall]

From earlier posts I gathered that dynamic difficulty is adjusted per worker connection, so I could have a fast miner doing high difficulty shares and a slower miner doing diff 1 shares on the same worker account. However, all my miners are doing diff 1 shares when vardiff is set to -1. The fastest is just 2GH/s, so it might not be enough to trigger a change. I tried manually adjusting vardiff to 4, but my miners are still doing difficulty 1 work after reconnecting. Do I have to disconnect all miners simultaneously before the change takes effect, or could there be some other issue?

[Graet]

From earlier posts I gathered that dynamic difficulty is adjusted per worker connection, so I could have a fast miner doing high difficulty shares and a slower miner doing diff 1 shares on the same worker account. However, all my miners are doing diff 1 shares when vardiff is set to -1. The fastest is just 2GH/s, so it might not be enough to trigger a change. I tried manually adjusting vardiff to 4, but my miners are still doing difficulty 1 work after reconnecting. Do I have to disconnect all miners simultaneously before the change takes effect, or could there be some other issue?

That is how it should work, yep.
2Gh/s isnt enough to trigger higher diff
I set 2 on mine

when you say reconnect, do you mean restarting miner or leaving miner running and reconnecting?

EDIT: or you might have just found a bug. looking into it now

[Blaksmith]

From earlier posts I gathered that dynamic difficulty is adjusted per worker connection, so I could have a fast miner doing high difficulty shares and a slower miner doing diff 1 shares on the same worker account. However, all my miners are doing diff 1 shares when vardiff is set to -1. The fastest is just 2GH/s, so it might not be enough to trigger a change. I tried manually adjusting vardiff to 4, but my miners are still doing difficulty 1 work after reconnecting. Do I have to disconnect all miners simultaneously before the change takes effect, or could there be some other issue?

That is how it should work, yep.
2Gh/s isnt enough to trigger higher diff
I set 2 on mine

when you say reconnect, do you mean restarting miner or leaving miner running and reconnecting?

EDIT: or you might have just found a bug. looking into it now

Bug found and squashed!  You should now be able to edit your worker profile, change the vardiff, and restart your rigs with the new settings. 
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for help finding that bug!