[ANN][LTC][Pool][PPLNS] [ Stratum ] give-me-ltc.com 1% FEE [10 block confirms!]

[niteryder]

Ok, noob question, isn't there some way to only allow incoming connections from allowed IP, and block the rest ? The allowed IP would naturally be those of your minions.

I think that is the whole point of setting up workers.

[serraz]

Dont worry we are always tweaking. A lot less connection problems today still got more work to do but we will get there.

Its great that users are emailing us and letting us know all this it all helps.

Keep it up guys thanks heaps!!

[cdog]

OK so I gave it another shot, first few workers connected fine, then as I tried to add a few more while doing some overclocking tweaks to them (starting and stopping the workers repeatedly), then they were unable to connect. So Im guessing you are only allowing a limited number of connection attempts from a single IP as a form of DDOS defense.

But its a double edged sword, because I need to connect over 12 workers from one IP and there are times I need to test OC stability and connect and reconnect. If there was some way to verify my IP as legitimate and allow it, say 50 connection attempts in a 24 hours period, that would be great because as the pool is right now, I cant use it for more than a few workers, and certainly not for stability testing.

[serraz]

OK so I gave it another shot, first few workers connected fine, then as I tried to add a few more while doing some overclocking tweaks to them (starting and stopping the workers repeatedly), then they were unable to connect. So Im guessing you are only allowing a limited number of connection attempts from a single IP as a form of DDOS defense.

But its a double edged sword, because I need to connect over 12 workers from one IP and there are times I need to test OC stability and connect and reconnect. If there was some way to verify my IP as legitimate and allow it, say 50 connection attempts in a 24 hours period, that would be great because as the pool is right now, I cant use it for more than a few workers, and certainly not for stability testing.

Agreed its very anoying that legit miners are being blocked out. We have made soem changes and more miners are able to connect. Rather then us chattign here is it possable for you to jump on IRC or add me on gmail and we can troubleshoot in realtime??

Im very sorry its takign solong for us to iron out all these issues. Hopefully we get them fixed soon.

[erk]

The net stats  Difficulty Next     calulator is way out, it read over 100 too high on the site compared to the actual LTC difficulty that occurred a couple of min ago.

This one was accurate:

https://www.litecoinpool.org/stats

[serraz]

The net stats  Difficulty Next     calulator is way out, it read over 100 too high on the site compared to the actual LTC difficulty that occurred a couple of min ago.

This one was accurate:

https://www.litecoinpool.org/stats

Yes it is inaccurate at teh moment because its calculating difficulty based on hashrate not average time of blocks solved like the one on litecoinpool. All the rest of teh info is pulled directly from the litecoin daemon.

Its on my list of things to fix but there are more pressing matters to deal with at the moment.

[FullLife]

The net stats  Difficulty Next     calulator is way out, it read over 100 too high on the site compared to the actual LTC difficulty that occurred a couple of min ago.

This one was accurate:

https://www.litecoinpool.org/stats

Even that one isn't as accurate as allchains.info, which is pretty much the standard.

[serraz]

Hey guys. You might notice higher stales or some dropouts. This is due to several DDOS attempts which were blocked sucessfully some legitimate IP addresses may have been blocked due to the attackers spoofing IP addresses. Things seem to be setteling down now and connections and stales returning to normal.

Looks like our hard work is paying off. We are surley getting there.

Thanks for your support.

[WeTradeCoins]

Hey guys. You might notice higher stales or some dropouts. This is due to several DDOS attempts which were blocked sucessfully some legitimate IP addresses may have been blocked due to the attackers spoofing IP addresses. Things seem to be setteling down now and connections and stales returning to normal.

Looks like our hard work is paying off. We are surley getting there.

Thanks for your support.

Best of luck serraz. we also getting hit non-stop last 24h or so. The protection is holding up, but those mofos are consistent

[serraz]

Hey guys. You might notice higher stales or some dropouts. This is due to several DDOS attempts which were blocked sucessfully some legitimate IP addresses may have been blocked due to the attackers spoofing IP addresses. Things seem to be setteling down now and connections and stales returning to normal.

Looks like our hard work is paying off. We are surley getting there.

Thanks for your support.

Best of luck serraz. we also getting hit non-stop last 24h or so. The protection is holding up, but those mofos are consistent

Yeah it seems to be a attempt to cause a market panic. Ive noticed soem patterns in the attacks in both size and duration. As well as some of the IP addresses. Lets seem what more info i can dig up

[GSnak]

Come back from being gone all day and I'm getting 50% rejects on all my workers. Any ideas why?

Code:

 [2013-05-11 22:32:12] GPU0   | (5s):0.000 (avg):601.2Kh/s | A:5933 R:4766 HW:0 U:9.5/m I:20

[serraz]

Come back from being gone all day and I'm getting 50% rejects on all my workers. Any ideas why?

Code:

 [2013-05-11 22:32:12] GPU0   | (5s):0.000 (avg):601.2Kh/s | A:5933 R:4766 HW:0 U:9.5/m I:20

i think it might have to do with the protection. ill certialy check it out 50% is far to high. if it keeps going up please email me i have some ideas that could help you alot

[serraz]

Hey all,

Quick update for you. If you miner got kicked off just then it is because the attackers are now getting really desprate and trying all sorts of new attacks oh mist of teh major LTC pools. We are on the case straight away and it only seemed to affect some users.

Keep trying to reconnect and if you are having great difficulty shoot us an email so we can take further steps to get you connected and stay connected.

I appoligise for all these connection issues over the last few days we are tryign our hardest to help keep things running smooth and your feedback ideas and patience is really helping us fix these bugs.

[kha0S]

Worker down notification is now available.

Hey all,

Quick update for you. If you miner got kicked off just then it is because the attackers are now getting really desprate and trying all sorts of new attacks oh mist of teh major LTC pools. We are on the case straight away and it only seemed to affect some users.

Keep trying to reconnect and if you are having great difficulty shoot us an email so we can take further steps to get you connected and stay connected.

I appoligise for all these connection issues over the last few days we are tryign our hardest to help keep things running smooth and your feedback ideas and patience is really helping us fix these bugs.

[serraz]

Worker down notification is now available.

Hey all,

Quick update for you. If you miner got kicked off just then it is because the attackers are now getting really desprate and trying all sorts of new attacks oh mist of teh major LTC pools. We are on the case straight away and it only seemed to affect some users.

Keep trying to reconnect and if you are having great difficulty shoot us an email so we can take further steps to get you connected and stay connected.

I appoligise for all these connection issues over the last few days we are tryign our hardest to help keep things running smooth and your feedback ideas and patience is really helping us fix these bugs.

To enable idle worker notifications you just simple go into your workers page a tick the notifications box.

You will be notified if you miner has been mining and suddenly stops on a 10 min basis. i have already made the announcement on the forum and will update the site when i get home tonight.

On a side note. It looks like freenode is being ddosd at this point in time so the chat may be down. I am working on my own chat solution which i hope to have up very soon (No ETA yet). Please continue to email us with any issues or concerns you may have.

Serraz,

[kendog77]

serraz,

Are the stratum connections working? I'm confused by the number of server options. The servers closest to me don't seem to support stratum, so they should be less efficient than stratum servers. It looks like only one of the servers below supports stratum. What server do you recommend for best performance, and does it support stratum?

This is from your website:

Now, point your "scrypt" miners to this pool server: If you recognize the hard work that as been put into this pool, you can use the new donors only server.
 stratum+tcp://stratum.give-me-ltc.com:3333
(Stratum Server: available to everyone)
Note: If you use a miner without stratum support please see faq page for instructiosn on how to setup a stratum proxy.
http://pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(Main Server: available to everyone)
http://pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(Donors only)
All pools have US and European mirros. To obtain maximum hashrate select nearest server:
 http://us-pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(US Main Server)
 http://eu-pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(Europe Main Server)
http://us-pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(US Donors Server)
http://eu-pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(Europe Donors Server)

[serraz]

serraz,

Are the stratum connections working? I'm confused by the number of server options. The servers closest to me don't seem to support stratum, so they should be less efficient than stratum servers. It looks like only one of the servers below supports stratum. What server do you recommend for best performance, and does it support stratum?

This is from your website:

Now, point your "scrypt" miners to this pool server: If you recognize the hard work that as been put into this pool, you can use the new donors only server.
 stratum+tcp://stratum.give-me-ltc.com:3333
(Stratum Server: available to everyone)
Note: If you use a miner without stratum support please see faq page for instructiosn on how to setup a stratum proxy.
http://pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(Main Server: available to everyone)
http://pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(Donors only)
All pools have US and European mirros. To obtain maximum hashrate select nearest server:
 http://us-pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(US Main Server)
 http://eu-pool.give-me-ltc.com:8080
(Europe Main Server)
http://us-pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(US Donors Server)
http://eu-pool-d.give-me-ltc.com:80
(Europe Donors Server)

I would always reccomend using stratum. We do have plans to upgrade the "doner" server to include its own stratum specifically for donators but things have been slowing that down.

[thepj]

This is the only site that I am getting <0.5% stales/rejects on too, absolutely loving it

[serraz]

Vardiff has been enabled on the pool. Check it out

[PCMiner]

This is minor, but is there a way you can add the ability to set your personal time zone on the site, or perhaps at least put a clock up on the menu bar with the current time for the site's clock?  I think I'm 6 hours behind the site time and constantly trying to do the math in my head for the block found times.
Thanks.