can't connect to pool

[Digicoiner]

Until last night I was able to connect to slush's pool using guiminer but now I get these errors:

2013-04-16 11:43:11: Listener for "BTC" started
2013-04-16 11:43:13: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:13, checking for stratum...
2013-04-16 11:43:13: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:13, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (ATI RV770)
2013-04-16 11:43:13: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:13, no response to getwork, using as stratum
2013-04-16 11:43:13: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:13,  No JSON object could be decoded
2013-04-16 11:43:23: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:23, Failed to subscribe
2013-04-16 11:43:25: Listener for "BTC": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 16/04/2013 11:43:25, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

I didn't change any settings.    I have my maximum hash rate but no shares.  Can anyone suggest what's wrong?  Thanks.

[vm1990]

not on your side just poped up on there website


16.04.2013
Pool is under DDoS attack. I'm working on recovering the service back to operation.

there getting hit again....

[vivabitcoin]

Slush just said that there is a current DDOS attack. There's not much we can do except wait it out. :|

[Digicoiner]

ok thanks.   I shall mine elsewhere for now.

[vm1990]

Slush just said that there is a current DDOS attack. There's not much we can do except wait it out. :|

sounds like what i said

[butamuh]

let's hope it will be up again soon

[vm1990]

well he noticed within 10 mins of the attack starting and hes usually very quick to get thing sorted, thin hes one of a hand full of pool operators that actually monitors the pool

[roukkie]

its just slush ddosed or other pools???

[vm1990]

just slush as far as i know, kinda hard to tell as a few have ddos protection so you dont notice if there being ddosed or not, slush gets ddosed quite a bit recently

[vm1990]

also you should change your setting to stratum
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

read there website there taking 10% of your earnings
14.04.2013
As announced in Getwork deprecation plan, the hashrate on Stratum is far above 90%, so workers which are still using the deprecated Getwork protocol are now charged by 10% fee. Please update your software and start using modern Stratum miners to reduce your fees back to 2%!

[vm1990]

must be very heavy attack not a single miner on the pool

Current server time:   2013-04-16 19:45:55 UTC
Current round started at:   2013-04-16 17:36:32 UTC
Current round duration:   2:09:23
Current shares CDF:   3.02 %
Current Bitcoin block, difficulty:   231686, 7672999
Pool luck (1 day, 7 days, 30 days):   114%, 98%, 102%
Current server load (60 sec average):   0 getwork/s
Stratum connections:   33069
Getwork connections:   4590
Total score of current round:   0.0000
Shares contributed in current round:   235120
Hashrate on Stratum interface (30 min average):   0.000 Ghash/s (0%)
Approx. cluster performance (30 min average):   0.000 Ghash/s

[Digicoiner]

also you should change your setting to stratum
stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333

read there website there taking 10% of your earnings
14.04.2013
As announced in Getwork deprecation plan, the hashrate on Stratum is far above 90%, so workers which are still using the deprecated Getwork protocol are now charged by 10% fee. Please update your software and start using modern Stratum miners to reduce your fees back to 2%!

I'm using the lates tversion of guiminer and for slush's pool it appears to automatically use: api2.bitcoin.cz:8332.  Should this software be updated?  Once the pool is back up I will manually enter the stratum address using the 'other' option.

[vm1990]

GUIminer isnt that upto date, slush only decided to go stratum a few months ago and the latest version of GUIminer was December someone should update it but that said dont think a little thing like this would bother them to much

[ft73]

Good to know

[roukkie]

when log to my slush account i see at the statistics (stratum and below yes)i suppose that means iam using stratum??

[vm1990]

yes if it says your using stratum then your using stratum (he might have been lazy and just put all of the pool addresses onto stratum)

[zellt5]

what is there to gain from ddosing a pool anyways?

[roukkie]

good to know,also is gonna be a loooong night....

[vm1990]

most of the time nothing but at the same time if you hit a few pools then the price of bitcoin fluctuates or if you keep a pool offline long enough then other pools get the chance to earn more bitcoins

overall its just some sad little prick who can press a button that needs his fingures cutting off... then his toes... then arms... then legs... then head and maybe some other bits inbetween

as people can tell i hate ddosing its a pussys way to do stuff and anyone doing it need to be shot

[roukkie]

thats silly if pools start ddos each other to get more btc...
how difficult is to implement ddos protection in pool???